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Out of curiosity, does anyone know the mathematicians actively leaning into AI + Lean?




Terence Tao is well known for being enthusiastic about Lean and AI and he regularly posts about his experiments.

He is also a serious research mathematician at the top of his game, considered by many one of the best mathematicians alive. This might be biased by the fact that he is such a good communicator, he is more visible than other similarly good mathematicians, but he is a Fields medallist all the same.


Kevin Buzzard has been the main mathematician involved with Lean

This is a recent talk where he discusses putting it together with LLMs (he's somewhat sceptical it'll be revolutionary for producing new mathematics any time soon)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5w7VS2sxD0


I'm leaning a lot into AI + lean. It's a fantastic tool to find new proofs. The extremly rigid nature of lean means you can really check programs for correctness. So that part of AI is solved. The only thing that remains is generating proofs, and that is where there's nothing in AI space right now. As soon as we do get something, our mathematical knowledge is going to explode.

What kind of math do you do, and what would “generating proofs” look like do you think?

i don't know why this was down-voted... i'm genuinely interested in the answers. feel free to dm me.

Terence Tao posts on mathstodon fairly regularly about lean, AI, and math. I'm not going to interpret his posts.



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