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Software Verification Gets Three Million Lines of Patience
· New York time
Google DeepMind says AlphaProof Code agents wrote three million lines of proofs in the Lean programming language to verify Signal's core encryption. The work applies AI agents to formal verification, a process intended to establish properties of software through mathematical proof. Encryption is a consequential place to demand rigor. A system can appear to work in ordinary use while the properties that protect communications require deeper examination. Formal proofs offer a way to make those claims precise and checkable. The length of the work also challenges the idea that AI's value is always a shorter answer. Here the output is extensive because verification demands detailed steps. The assistant's accomplishment, as reported by its creator, is not sparing anyone the mathematics; it is helping produce a great deal more of it.
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