LeCun: Proving Theorems Doesn't Mean AI Is Beyond Human Level at Math
ylecun · x · 2026-09-16
Responding to claims that AI has surpassed humans at math, Yann LeCun argues that being better at searching for and writing down formal theorem proofs is just one automatable "mechanical task," not the whole of mathematics.
He compares it to arithmetic or computing integrals: the core of mathematical work is inventing new concepts, frameworks, abstractions, and definitions, and formulating conjectures — which requires intuition and creativity that current AI systems do not yet have.
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