AI Isn’t Outthinking Mathematicians. It’s Out-Remembering Them."A human mathematician can hold only a small number of un...

AI Isn’t Outthinking Mathematicians. It’s Out-Remembering Them."A human mathematician can hold only a small number of unfamiliar elements in mind simultaneously. An AI model can keep the entire problem statement, hundreds of intermediate equations, several abandoned approaches, definitions, constraints and earlier conclusions inside its context window.We normally interpret the resulting performance as evidence of superior reasoning. But some of it may instead reflect the removal of one of the most important biological limits on human reasoning: our extr..."https://davidepiffer.com/p/ai-isnt-outthinking-mathematicians#ai #cogsci #llms #math