[Ianjit]

Isn’t this what Tao is addressing in the link, that LLMs haven’t encoded reasoning? Success in IMO is misleading because they are synthetic problems with known solutions that are subject to contamination (answers to similar questions are available in the textbooks and online).

He also discusses his view on the similarity and differences between mathematics and natural language.Tao says mathematics is driven entirely by efficiency, so presumably using natural language to do mathematics is a step backwards.