Would top math departments hire a student who solved three hard problems with ChatGPT?
damekdavis · x · 2026-07-23
A hypothetical asks whether a graduate student who solved three problems on the level of the Erdős unit distance conjecture — using only simple ChatGPT prompting — would get hired by a top math department.
The post is really about what AI-assisted proof discovery would mean for academic hiring, not about a specific model release.
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