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1 month agoThank you! And I agree that the situation is interesting, but I didn’t need any of it beyond the first paragraph, I was more interested in the math context. And it was late and I was reading it right before going to bed so that also shifts perspective 😅
This reads like that story where a student was late to class, saw some unsolved conjecture on the blackboard and thought it was homework, and proved it because he didn’t know it was supposed to be hard, so didn’t have the mental block.
Chatgpt hallucinated something that an actual mathematician interpreted into the (accidental?) right direction and they ended up somewhere correct, great! But not as impressive as they’re making the headline sound by far.