Mathematicians, not just LLMs, made AI's math breakthroughs possible, scholars argue
tak3sh8 · x · 2026-09-23
Itai Her argues that AI's recent math achievements were enabled by the mathematical community, whose careful, systematic organization of knowledge made the big problems tractable for LLMs. Quoting Arthur Spirling: math isn't 'solved', but the field's precision is something every discipline should aspire to — and the disdain for mathematicians that AI progress has sparked in some people is strange.
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