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I think a more realistic answer is that professional mathematicians have tried to get LLMs to solve their problems and the LLMs have not been able to make any progress.

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I think it's a bit early to tell whether GPT 5.2 has helped research mathematicians substantially given its recency. The models move so fast that even if all previous models were completely useless I wouldn't be sure this one would be. Let's wait a year and see? (it takes time to write papers)

It's helped, but it's not correct that mathematicians are scoring major results by just feeding their problems to gpt 5.2 pro, so the OP claim that mathematicians are just playing off AI output as their own is silly. Here, im talking about serious mathematical work, not people posting (unattributed AI slop to the arXiv).

I assume OP was mostly joking, but we need to take care about letting AI companies hype up their impressive progress at the expense of mathematics. This needs to be discussed responsibly.

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