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Even experts are surprised by AI’s latest ‘vibe-mathing’ advance (www.scientificamerican.com)
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Here's a github tracking AI contributions to Erdos problems: https://github.com/teorth/erdosproblems/wiki/AI-contributions-to-Erd%C5%91s-problems

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[–] Yaky@slrpnk.net 17 points 3 hours ago

This reminds me of a story my graph theory professor told me (long before LLMs). One of their grad students discovered that a subset of graphs that are of type A and B at once has fantastic properties, such as fast searching, and a few others, useful in communication networks etc.

Excited about their potential thesis, student asked the professor to take a look. After calculating which graphs actually are types A and B at the same time, professor found that the intersection of such graph types is a null set. So the theoretically nice graphs the student "discovered" simply do not exist.