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LLMs are likely to be good at problems where the best method is to try many ideas until one succeeds.
Drawn from what Timothy Gowers said
SubjectLLMs
What Timothy Gowers actually said
- Timothy Gowers British mathematician; Fields Medal 1998
Very roughly, LLMs would have the edge when there is more of a probabilistic element to the proof-finding process: they would be good at problems for which the best method is to try a lot of ideas, not necessarily particularly novel, until at some point you get lucky.
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↗Gowers's Webloggowers.wordpress.com
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