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mr_mitm 7 hours ago [-]
100 pages of dense mathematics created by Claude. It doesn't even have an abstract or a summary. What are we looking at here? Has anyone read this? Please explain like I'm not a math PhD.
robinhouston 7 hours ago [-]
I’m pretty sure no one (except perhaps Anthropic insiders who had prior access, and probably not even them) has properly digested this paper yet, and some caution is warranted given the notoriety of this problem and the history of claimed solutions that did not stand up to scrutiny. But if it stands up, it’s a really big deal.
complex structure in S^6 would mean an associative version of octonions (which are non associative "almost complex" versions of their cousins native to S^3, which you may know as (unit) "quaternions").
Also fancy cousins of unit vectors (that you can do a nonzero triple cross product with), ie "non associative vectors" living on S^2, the 2D surface of a sphere "with radius 1"
Big enough that Atiyah the godfather of this subfield, in 2016 claimed to have solved it (not sure if it was before or after the dementia)
This is not just any math PhD, it's the anthropic guy whom Claude helped find the Jacobian counterexample, which might be quite worthy of a fields medal (for impact if not notoriety or complexity) if it were human
Disclaimer: not a pure maths PhD myself, just someone who likes this stuff so..
cmenge 7 hours ago [-]
There's an abstract on page 3. But it's quite ... abstract.
By the end of the first sentence I'm pretty sure it would take me quite some time to understand what it's about (the first sentence of the abstract, not the whole paper)
This kind of papers go way over my head, but recently I was surprised that ChatGTP (free) found the proof for an expression had a square value for some variables. It dug up a relationship from a paper from 2009 and correctly applied it to the case.
>Proofs which fewer and fewer people are able to understand
>Those who do understand, the rate at which models make discoveries exceed the amount of time those humans have in a day
>As a result, we will increasingly use other AI models to validate the proofs AI make for us
I don't see a future where this doesn't apply to everything. Let's say you're an evil CEO, you could ask an AI model to run for days cooking up every possible nefarious scheme to get out of a class-action lawsuit scott-free, to avoid taxes via complex financial engineering, etc. The plans will be far more complex than any human can understand. There simply aren't enough humans with the mental bandwidth to oppose you, so it's just machine vs machine, and if you have more money to pay for more compute, you win.
HedonicEscal8r 4 hours ago [-]
Tax law is not arbitrarily complicated, and unexpected edge cases are settled by human judges, not by mathematical proofs.
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bad_haircut72 7 hours ago [-]
LGTM
dinga 7 hours ago [-]
I skimmed through it. Looks fine. Had a bit of trouble following step 5 of theroem 10.5 (page 89), but after a second look it became all too obvious.
cmenge 7 hours ago [-]
I was more confused by the application of Nakayama’s lemma in the following paragraph, but then it suddenly became clear to me.
_zoltan_ 7 hours ago [-]
basically trivial.
scuppernong 7 hours ago [-]
christ
gerdesj 7 hours ago [-]
I'm with you. That is quite a dense paper.
I nearly made it through the first line, OK, sentence of what looks like the Intro, which doesn't bother introducing itself and isn't actually the introduction which occurs later.
I can only describe pages one and two as some sort of foreplay. If you manage to hang on until P108 you can dispense with a safe word in future.
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esafak 7 hours ago [-]
Is this a proof a human could have come up with? Is it elegant? How significant was the human contribution?
jiggawatts 7 hours ago [-]
I’ve been turning the handle on GPT for weeks, feeding in toy models of physics and seeing what pops out the other end.
It’s mostly this type of mathematics: classifying what high dimensional spaces can and can’t do.
Maths like this is where the AIs will be most useful in the next few years: tirelessly grinding through every possibility on the edge of human knowledge, filling in gaps and completing maps of no-go regions in the theory space.
Background: https://mathoverflow.net/questions/1973/is-there-a-complex-s...
complex structure in S^6 would mean an associative version of octonions (which are non associative "almost complex" versions of their cousins native to S^3, which you may know as (unit) "quaternions").
Also fancy cousins of unit vectors (that you can do a nonzero triple cross product with), ie "non associative vectors" living on S^2, the 2D surface of a sphere "with radius 1"
If you haven't quite got the PhD https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/quaternionic+structure
Big enough that Atiyah the godfather of this subfield, in 2016 claimed to have solved it (not sure if it was before or after the dementia)
This is not just any math PhD, it's the anthropic guy whom Claude helped find the Jacobian counterexample, which might be quite worthy of a fields medal (for impact if not notoriety or complexity) if it were human
Disclaimer: not a pure maths PhD myself, just someone who likes this stuff so..
By the end of the first sentence I'm pretty sure it would take me quite some time to understand what it's about (the first sentence of the abstract, not the whole paper)
The chat: https://chatgpt.com/share/6a7f1b08-b9dc-83ea-b911-aaf8b65f1c...
>Proofs which fewer and fewer people are able to understand
>Those who do understand, the rate at which models make discoveries exceed the amount of time those humans have in a day
>As a result, we will increasingly use other AI models to validate the proofs AI make for us
I don't see a future where this doesn't apply to everything. Let's say you're an evil CEO, you could ask an AI model to run for days cooking up every possible nefarious scheme to get out of a class-action lawsuit scott-free, to avoid taxes via complex financial engineering, etc. The plans will be far more complex than any human can understand. There simply aren't enough humans with the mental bandwidth to oppose you, so it's just machine vs machine, and if you have more money to pay for more compute, you win.
I nearly made it through the first line, OK, sentence of what looks like the Intro, which doesn't bother introducing itself and isn't actually the introduction which occurs later.
I can only describe pages one and two as some sort of foreplay. If you manage to hang on until P108 you can dispense with a safe word in future.
It’s mostly this type of mathematics: classifying what high dimensional spaces can and can’t do.
Maths like this is where the AIs will be most useful in the next few years: tirelessly grinding through every possibility on the edge of human knowledge, filling in gaps and completing maps of no-go regions in the theory space.
Announced by the same people, basically at the same time.