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Re:Will it be a golden age or a dark age for mathematics (an... by emptybits on Sunday October 18, 2026 @12:11PM (#50142345)
I like everything you said, but do you think AI assisted math may primarily give us a more productive age for individuals, with less need for human-human collaboration?

Maybe it doesn’t matter and maybe that’s just the new flavour of golden.

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Re:Will it be a golden age or a dark age for mathematics (an... by odyssey7 on Sunday October 18, 2026 @12:22PM (#50142468)
That’s for the mathematicians to figure out. I’m not involved in their field.

Completely spitballing, I wonder what sort of sophisticated, collaborative computing effort might produce a paper analogous to the Higgs boson one, with 5154 authors.

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