Testing Frontier Math Skills: Proving Theorems Harder Than Finding Counterexamples
doodlestein · x · 2026-08-01
While testing the math research capabilities of frontier models, the author noted that finding counterexamples is impressive, but constructing long proofs to turn conjectures into theorems is significantly harder and generally more useful. They joked about picking too tough a problem for the model evaluation.
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