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The “Mozart of mathematics” doesn’t worry about artificial intelligence replacing math geeks – ever
Terence Tao, a UCLA professor considered “the world’s greatest living mathematician,” last month compared ChapGPT’s o1 reasoning model to “averagebut not completely incompetent”, a graduate who could answer a posh analytical problem accurately, “with plenty of hints and hints”.
Artificial intelligence may never defeat its human teachers, he now believes says The Atlantic. “One of the important thing differences (currently) between graduates and AI is that graduates learn. You tell the AI that its approach is not working, it apologizes, possibly it corrects its course temporarily, but sometimes it just goes back to what it tried before.
The excellent news for math geniuses, Tao adds, is that AI and mathematicians will likely at all times be collaborators, where somewhat than replacing math geeks, AI will enable them to explore previously unattainable large-scale problems. Tao says about the longer term: “You might need a project and say, ‘What if I do this approach?’ Instead of spending hours attempting to get it to work, you direct GPT to do it for you.