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Top mathematicians say LLMs are strong calculators but poor creative thinkers

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Top mathematicians say LLMs are strong calculators but poor creative thinkers

The Decoder · Aug 16, 2026, 3:31 PM UTC

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. The article Top mathematicians say LLMs are strong calculators but poor creative thinkers appeared first on The Decoder .