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by InkCanon 47 days ago
The checking has nothing to do with AI, despite the (massively funded) marketing done to make you think so. It is based on formal methods/theorem provers.
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The point of the AI with respect to checking is to translate a natural language theorem and its proof into the formal system. Most of known math is not formalized because it is very hard to do so.
From what I've seen on Tao's YouTube channel, he does use GitHub Copilot via VSCode to write Lean4 code.