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Re:Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @12:50AM (#49621158)
Perhaps his takes are evidence of just usual human fear to new things. I see he relies quite much on the "community" or "social" aspects of the discussion.

I probably have delusional expectation of what a mathematician of his level should be talking about, but I expected from him a pure objective analysis on what to do with this new AI thing , what are its limitations, how it can improve the field and the creation of human knowledge, etc.

Re:Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @12:17AM (#49620909)
What you are saying implies that by some technique that hasn't been discovered yet, we can make the models to have the capabilities of extrapolate the information they are trained on and also interpret that what they are extrapolating are Riemann-capable hypothesis. I do believe it will accelerate the discovery of that "vast universe of mathematical depth that's beyond our ability" but at the cost of removing the "fun part" of solving the problems. Not sure if the community is willing to do that.
Re:Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @12:07AM (#49620818)
That explains a lot on why his arguments always focus on the "social part"