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#155 – Max Tegmark: AI and Physics

Lex Fridman Podcast

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How to Prove a Neural Network

If we can use machine learning to help do the proofs and so on as well, then it's much easier to verify that a proof is correct than to come up with a proof in the first place. That's really the core idea here. If someone comes on your podcast and says they prove the Riemann hypothesis or something new sensational new theorem, it's not me. It's much easier for someone else to take some smart grad math grad students to check oh, there's an error here on equation five or this really checks out than it was to discover the proof.

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