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A majority of these proofs have not been formally verified yet, I think people are overstating how important lean is to the success of LLMs in mathematics.

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A paper and a lean proof are always going to be better than just a paper. I think mathematicians generally will not read AI math papers that haven't already been verified, especially since we're about to see a ton more AI math papers. Lean will remain important

Are there any AI generated proofs that are simple enough to be verified quickly by a human, that have not been lean verified? Or are they all basically incomprehensible?

The approximation of edit distance result [1] seems pretty readable to me, but the learn proof is still incomplete [2]. It's certainly much less readable than a good human written proof but it's certainly better than the last generation of AI proofs.

[1] https://github.com/openai/math/blob/main/preprints/An-Almost... [2] https://github.com/openai/math/blob/main/lean/ComparatorChal...

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