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The AI did almost all of a full Lean proof version of a research paper in 3 to 4 weeks

A man learning language design spent 3 to 4 weeks with AI doing a full mechanization in Lean of the paper From Linearity to Borrowing. The work covers nearly every definition and lemma in the paper, including the Fundamental Property and Adequacy results.

How it works

  1. He gives the AI the paper and its technical supplement
  2. The AI builds the Lean mechanization definition by definition and lemma by lemma
  3. Over 3 to 4 weeks nearly the whole paper is covered, including the two big results

Why it’s worth knowing

A full formal proof version of a research paper, the kind of work that takes specialists months, was done as one man’s side project.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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