AI Discovers Counterexamples in Statistics
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-07-15
- This post recounts a case of AI making a new discovery in statistics: by combining known concepts, a model generated a non-standard yet valid counterexample.
- The original text emphasizes that the output distribution of LLMs is broader than human thinking, making them better at generating such counterexamples. For statisticians, these are open problems that genuinely warrant manual construction.
- The quote also mentions that GPT-5.6 has already solved this conjecture. The author feels that while the AI did the job, they would have much preferred it to be solved by a human.
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