Hugo Duminil-Copin: “OpenAI’s release of hundreds of AI proofs is a “monumental shock”: for mathematicians “it is the day after”; on one problem it felt like running a marathon with someone on his back who jumped off in the last 100 metres to cross the line first”
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· Science · French mathematician and 2022 Fields medalist, on Swiss radio RTS after OpenAI published hundreds of manuscripts with AI proofs, 16 of them on problems in his field
original
“« Ça a été un choc monumental parce que, d'un certain point de vue, on est le jour d'après. » … « J'en ai même pleuré, pour tout vous dire. » … « Sur l'un des problèmes, j'ai l'impression d'avoir couru un marathon avec quelqu'un sur le dos, qui serait descendu dans les 100 derniers mètres pour franchir la ligne avant moi »”— Hugo Duminil-Copin, RTS, 08.10.2026 ↗
translation
““It was a monumental shock because, from a certain point of view, it is the day after.” … “To be honest with you, I even cried.” … “On one of the problems, I feel as if I had run a marathon with someone on my back who got off in the last 100 metres to cross the line before me””
backs
Large language model+Reinforcement learning → AI in mathematics (2024)
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