[drivebyhooting]

Well for me the twilight had already come when I realized I’d never amount to a decent mathematician. Maybe this is rather a common experience?

LLMs just democratized that process.

[waynecochran]

LLM's may have provided a bit of comeuppance. Many mathematicians have cared little if anyone understands their obscure nomenclature and build mote around their work. Now they have encountered something that is becoming far more capable than they are and they may soon be left in the dark.

[spiresofagartha]

I don't get it. Do you feel good or bad about that? Is that the way you tell you're empathetic to the author?

[joshdavham]

What made you realize you'd never amount to a decent mathematician?

For me, it was a course in Real Analysis haha

[drivebyhooting]

Graduate complex analysis. I couldn’t do any of the homework problems without a study group.

[vouaobrasil]

The whole point of math is to just have fun discovering things. You might be able to discover math with an LLM, but you'll never be a mathematician if you don't do it yourself. LLMs don't democratize anything. They just let you spew out results that aren't particularly impressive if you can't even understand what the hell you're creating.

[drivebyhooting]

You misunderstood me.

LLMs democratize the process of mathematical disillusionment. There may come a day that Terence Tao himself will have this democracy delivered to him. When the human mathematical towers are crumbled and spirits left humbled.