Or does anyone think that making films about intelligent alien life gives you some clue about the actual existence of intelligent alien life?
Does he have anything to say about shark attacks as well?
@tak3sh8@KenOno691 Grandmasters use engines as collaborators, not replacements. “Mathematical understanding” doesn’t need protecting from AI. It evolves with better tools.
@tak3sh8@KenOno691 Exactly : AI didn’t kill chess — it supercharged it.
When engines demolished the old way of playing, human understanding, curiosity, and pleasure didn’t vanish. They grew.
The same thing is happening in mathematics. Tools and AI are raising the ceiling, not lowering it.
Meanwhile, in the orbiting stealth observation station...
Alien One: Hey, look at this planet’s energy timeline. 1945: split the atom. 1954: first nuclear plant. 2025: entire continents covered in giant spinning sticks again.
Alien Two: Spinning sticks? You mean… windmills? Like their 12th-century tech?
Alien One: Yep. Mastered the power of a thousand suns, then collectively said, “Nah, let’s just pray for wind.”
Alien Two: Ran out of uranium maybe?
Alien One: They’ve got oceans of thorium and enough uranium dissolved in seawater to last millennia. They just… picked the sticks.
Alien Two: Religious ritual? Appeasing the Great Breeze Spirit?
Alien One: Would explain Germany. Shut down flawless reactors, then paid the neighbors to burn coal when the sticks take a nap.
Alien Two: I hate these creatures. They’ve got fusion working in a lab, but the solution was clearly taller bird-chopping sky fans.
Alien One: Give it a decade and they’ll rediscover fire and call it “breakthrough baseload.”
Our team at @AIatMeta is excited to announce ATLAS: one of the largest automated formalization efforts to date.
ATLAS contains Lean 4 formalizations of both statements and proofs from 25+ mathematics textbooks, spanning dozens of domains, for a total of 500k lines of code. We are also releasing a flexible formalization harness and a companion paper.
External contributions are welcome!
Joint work spearheaded by our amazing PhD student Ahmad Rammal (@Ahmad3Rammal), together with Niket Patel (@niketnpatel ), Fabian Gloeckle (@FabianGloeckle), Amaury Hayat (@Amaury_Hayat), Remi Munos (@MunosRemi), Julia Kempe (@KempeLab), Vivien Cabannes, and myself from @AIatMeta, @NYUDataScience , and Ecole des Ponts. This is an ongoing effort; more details in the thread below.
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"Mathematics is not a deductive science – that's a cliche. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the hypotheses, and then start to reason. What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork." – Paul Halmos (1916-2006)
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"[Mathematical discovery] does not consist in making new combinations with mathematical entities that are already known. That can be done by any one, and the combinations that could be so formed [...]" – Henri Poincaré (1854-1912)
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In 1916, Stefan Banach—then an unknown engineer’s assistant without a degree—was overheard by Hugo Steinhaus solving a tough integral at a Kraków café. Steinhaus struck up a conversation; within a few years Banach helped found modern functional analysis. A literal “talent scouted at a café” story.