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But here’s a reason why other people might care. This is the first paper I’ve ever put out for which a key technical step in the proof of the main result came from AI—specifically, from GPT5-Thinking.
It can't offer solutions, it can offer cribbed patterns from the training corpus (more specifically some fuzzy superposition of symbol combinations) that apply in some specific context. It's not clear why Aaronson is constantly hyping this stuff b/c it seems like he is much more rigorous in his regular work than when he is making grand proclamations about some impending singularity wherein everyone just asks the computer the right questions to get the right answers.