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Why do we need human mathematicians anymore?

293 points · 384 comments · auggierose

  1. vatsachak · · focus · HN ↗
    Why is Terry Tao even talking these arguments when all OpenAI did was a sophisticated brute force search with LLMs?

    Give them Navier-Stokes in a vacuum

    1. sinuhe69 · · focus · HN ↗
      Because it’s high time to rethink the incentives and rewards structures to nurture the next generations of mathematicians when corporate money and automated AI systems are mining the pool of limited interesting problems without giving back or enhance our understanding.

      The problem they care about is not just “AI replaces human mathematicians” but rather the society thinks mathematicians can be replaced by AI.

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