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by raincole 583 days ago
If "better than humans" means when you give it a real world problem, it gives you a mathematical model to describe it (and does it better than human experts), then yes, it's the end game.

If it just solves a few formalized problems with formalized theorems, not so much. You can write a program that solves ALL the problems under formalized theorems already. It just runs very slowly.

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I don’t think you can gloss over the importance of computational tractability here. A human could also start enumerating every possible statement in ZFC, but clearly that doesn’t make them a mathematician.