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Top mathematicians say LLMs are strong calculators but poor creative thinkers

Posted on August 16, 2026 by admin

Two renowned mathematicians, Timothy Gowers and Peter Sarnak, say large language models are good at combining known methods but lack the intuition for genuinely new mathematical ideas.

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