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I am more skeptical. Even with Navier Stokes, I never heard anyone actually internalize the result and have trust in it. I just heard vague lean-dih waving.
Supposedly it's 26000 subtheorems of goobledigook, feels untameable.
Mathematicians seemingly: Axioms are correct, we trust lean => Result correct.
As a physics, CS thinker: AI probably found a bug in our axioms. And/or usual self-referential math issue. And/or connected to Goedel's incompleteness. Also I wonder why I even trust lean as much, havent even read its code. Most software works great until somebody starts poking at its limits.
Even if it's finding bugs in those, it would be progress. Imagine we can find bugs like that in many other problems, that's pretty valuable. Agreed it will take time to digest proofs and produce something new out of it.