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by encyclopediai 6d ago
The title communicates a different idea than the body of the text. I'd rather give a quote from the body, which is very reasonable: "We believe the recent developments have profound implications for mathematics but the systems are
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by encyclopediai 6d ago
Yes. The main idea visible through this pile of problems is that human ingenuity (of the management) will find a way to use anything for more money (publishers) or more prestige (academic researchers). The mathematicians who complain now ha
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by encyclopediai 7d ago
Thanks. IMO the most fun is in the CAPTCHA, which turns on its head the Turing test. But it goes even further than their greCAPTCHA and it solves their consumed time problem. Indeed, in their proposal they have a human bottleneck, but in t
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by encyclopediai 7d ago
In June 2026 I proposed a CAPTCHA for scientific publications https://chorasimilarity.wordpress.com/2026/06/13/a-captcha-f... At the moment this was seen as a tongue in cheek proposal.
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by encyclopediai 7d ago
Yes. AI is a useful tool and we are going to adapt and use it. The phd student will be forced to publish 10 breaktrough articles, the university department which does not offer "free" access to AI (for its members) will see the it
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by encyclopediai 7d ago
The last days we are served these high goals about understanding, "digestion" and so on. But if you look at the practice of present mathematics, in the last 20 years it is all about publishing solutions to problems. There are famo
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by encyclopediai 8d ago
This will not happen. The fear comes from the real problem: publication as a measure. The mathematics itself will only benefit from the discovery of cross links from the human created literature. Think about these LLM as infinitely patient
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by encyclopediai 13d ago
Most mathematicians do compete for funding, based essentially on how many articles they can publish and where. Publication strongly favors problem solving. Universities are ranked on the same criteria. What we see is a panic reaction to the
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by encyclopediai 14d ago
I feel like Randy Waterhouse in the scene where he was trying to (not) participate to a discussion at the table concerning the internet. Everybody knows what eating the seed corn means. There is no seed corn analog in mathematics. Since the
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by encyclopediai 14d ago
The is no "the mathematicians". Some mathematicians, very influent ones, are mad at AI, for social reasons, because it shows problem solving is "easy". Mathematics is fine and will be fine in the future.
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by encyclopediai 14d ago
I disagree with this scarcity point of view. Concrete example: Navier-Stokes. I don't make any claims about the truth of the announcement of the proof. But for the sake of the argument le't just suppose we know now that there is a
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by encyclopediai 14d ago
Mathematics called and says she's fine. She's curious about how is that possible. Misaligned are the present academic merit system hand in hand with financial interests of academic publishing industry. The system will be exploited
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by encyclopediai 16d ago
I run such tests since a long time at chorasimilarity open notebook. I always used guest non login accounts. As a mathematician I was able to check two plagiates (by humans) with even such primitive means. But I have to mention that some th