Terence Tao
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Podcast Appearances
And it might suggest, OK, try this.
And maybe 25% of the time, it works exactly.
And then another 10%, 15% of the time, it doesn't quite work.
But it's close enough that I can say, oh, yeah, if I just change it here and here, it will work.
And then half the time, it gives me complete rubbish.
But people are beginning to use AIs a little bit on top, mostly on the level of basically fancy autocomplete, that you can type half of one line of a proof and it will tell you.
Yes.
Yeah.
So right now I estimate that the effort, time and effort taken to formalize a proof is about 10 times the amount taken to write it out.
Yeah.
So it's doable, but you don't, it's annoying.
But doesn't it like kill the whole vibe of being a mathematician?
Yeah.
So I mean, having a pedantic co-worker.
Right.
Yeah.
If that was the only aspect of it.
Okay.
But, um,
Okay, there's some cases where it's actually more pleasant to do things formally.