Difficulty in performing complex mathematical tasks accurately and efficiently

Signals over time

3 observed signals across 1 sources, tracked for 5 days. Confidence: low.

What people are saying Observed

• “FWIW I don't think it makes sense to copy anyone's CAD program, and I am negatively disposed to the ArtCraft thing as a general position. I think it's fully the wrong approach. But I am here for LLMs, if they really can be used to solve maths, to solve CAD maths, which is, as you say, the really difficult stuff. I am still not going to use an early-stage CAD package, but this actually would be a meaningful contribution to society. The rest is a bit AI NIH.”

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• “Cursor Grok 4.7 improved unsolved math and created something new. I recently saw how OpenAI was pushing and solving math problems and being bullish on Cursor Grok, I just gave the model a couple of different unsolved math problems and left it for a couple of hours. Out of the three I gave it, there had been progress on one. It managed to disprove a specific case of it. What really impressed me was that it did it in a couple of hours and only took a small part of the total usage(I am on the Pro Plan). If anybody at Cursor sees this, I would love to give the results to you guys and see if you can push it forward as long as my name remains on the paper! 1 post - 1 participant Read full topic”

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• “Maybe don't take words out of my mouth. I studied math when I was younger, and got to the top 0.001% in mathematics competitions. Why did I study so hard? In order: 1. I recognized that understanding math had incredibly profitable applications. 2. It was a sport. 3. It was a hobby. Do I think the world will look the same when math is "solved"? Absolutely not! And we're seeing it transform right before our eyes. I routinely ask Claude, "here's the general idea for a math/cs/ai problem I'm working on, can you help me figure out the maths? oh and then implement it too." Could I figure this out myself? Of course. Having the idea is halfway to formalizing it in math. But I remember even last year working on GPU kernels by hand and having a bunch of little arithmetic or indexing errors burn me, because I'm just slower and less perfect at doing the math correctly. Now I basically just tell Claude, "go optimize a GPU kernel for this problem". I still have to tell it what to look out for (architectural, algorithmic, memory improvements), but I'm sure the next model won't even need that.”

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