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>What happened was mathematicians at openAI learned of an imminent development on this problem, and the insight that it entailed, then they were able to prompt a system in the correct direction and spend 20 million dollars to write down the final steps.

That's not what happened.

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Actually it was. But thanks for elaborating.

No it wasn't. They didn't know 'what direction' to take, and the solution they posted was not in fact the direction the authors took, so evidently you don't know what you're talking about. And they say LLMs hallucinate.

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