Gary Marcus amplifies claim that Lean deserves equal credit with AI for math breakthroughs
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-10-07
Gary Marcus retweeted @dimvar's take that in recent AI-powered math breakthroughs, the formal verification system Lean deserves as much credit as the AI models themselves — it was the true enabler of these results. The remark feeds the ongoing debate over whether OpenAI's IMO-level achievements stem from neural models or symbolic verification tooling.
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