Q&A with UCLA's Terence Tao, widely considered the world's greatest living mathematician, on OpenAI's o1, how AI might be useful to mathematicians, and more
Terence Tao, the world's greatest living mathematician, has a vision for AI. — Terence Tao, a mathematics professor at UCLA, is a real-life superintelligence.
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@boazbaraktcs
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Worth reading. One comment here shows how important is longer context . There are about 2K working hours in a year. So if now conversations are about 10 minutes, if we grow context by 6 OOMs (from O(10K) to O(10B) ) then it can last a lifetime. [image]
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@chazfirestone
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enjoying all these stories and blog posts about terry tao's assessment of AI math capabilities, but keep feeling for the people he compares the models to... [image]
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@bobmcgrewai
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Terence Tao on what math looks like after o1... https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
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“Instead of narrow, deep mathematics, where an expert human works very hard on a narrow scope of problems, you could have broad, crowdsourced problems with lots of AI assistance that are maybe shallower, but at a much larger scale.” Humanities take note. https://www.theatlantic.c…
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“At the frontier, we will always need humans and AI. They have complementary strengths. AI is very good at converting billions of pieces of data into one good answer. Humans are good at taking 10 observations and making inspired guesses” - Terence Tao. https://www.theatlantic.com…
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Terry Tao on math and AI, in @TheAtlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
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Love this Q&A @matteo_wong did with Terence Tao about OpenAI's o1, and how AI might bring about new possibilities in mathematics. Nuance! https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
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Terence Tao (!!) and I discuss OpenAI's latest model mediocrity, how AI might be useful to mathematicians (as “glue,” for now), and his vision for industrial mathematics: https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
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Terence Tao, perhaps the world's greatest living mathematician, has likened OpenAI's new model to a “mediocre” graduate student. @matteo_wong spoke with him about what today's AI can and cannot do for cutting-edge mathematics: https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
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We're Entering Uncharted Territory for Math - Terrence Tao on o1 and the future of AI & Math (partial paywall so i put it in comments)
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We're Entering Uncharted Territory for Math