Fields Medalist who famously cried over OpenAI’s paper dump, refuses to use AI in his own research: “People that don’t want to use AI… they need to be able to practice their arts in the way they are doing it today.” the interviewer pushes back elsewhere: name one other field where we hold back technology that can already do the work, just for the sake of students. Hugo Duminil-Copin: “The human understanding of mathematics is the only thing that at the end benefits society. […] If the purpose of mathematics was purely getting as many results proved and lean formalized then […] you could even imagine a totally automatized version. […] You have a black box which is providing you the answer […] it gives you 42 but you have zero clue why.”

If we want to continue progress in science, we must be prepared to acknowledge that the correct description of nature will eventually simply be too complicated for humans to understand. I do not think it is wise to make human understanding a requirement. AI is the way forward.

If we want to continue progress in science, we must be prepared to acknowledge that the correct description of nature will eventually simply be too complicated for humans to understand. I do not think it is wise to make human understanding a requirement. AI is the way forward.

Mathematician Terence Tao: "one thing this whole era of AI is teaching us is that our idea of intelligence is not really accurate" The history of AI has been: 'here’s a task only humans can do', and then one by one, an algorithm does it too Maybe we're not quite as smart as we think

This is a slide from Terence Tao's 'Math 2.0' public lecture yesterday evening at Caltech. I am highly confident that, if the cure actually worked, almost any Stage 4 cancer patient would tell you that human comprehension of its mechanism is completely irrelevant to them.

Mathematicians are OUTRAGED that their high social status, with its accompaniment of wealth, women, and general extravagance, has been encroached upon by artificial intelligences of humble background.

NYU math professor Tristan Buckmaster says OpenAI’s Tuesday drop of 722 AI-generated math papers wiped out entire research programs: “This recent dump of papers on Tuesday destroyed the careers of early career mathematicians.”

Cut resistant gloves

Every software developer should own a potato PC. It's the easiest way to ensure your application is fast enough. Put your agents to work within it and watch the weight drop. There's no reason a machine from ten years ago shouldn't fly like superman.

Every software developer should own a potato PC. It's the easiest way to ensure your application is fast enough. Put your agents to work within it and watch the weight drop. There's no reason a machine from ten years ago shouldn't fly like superman.

I have zero nostalgia, the type of deep architecture work and performance tuning you can now do all by yourself was only possible if you had access to a team of 100s of top engineers just a year ago. Not only is writing code by hand not economically viable anymore, it no longer leads to better code either.