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Comments on No. 50 of 62 · Latent Space · edition of Monday 26 October 2026

AI is getting good at math, here's why

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This Hrih News piece argues that AI models solve math problems differently from humans: where people search breadth-first and need strong hints to justify months of work, LLMs search depth-first and can test weak ideas cheaply when paired with an automated verifier.

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