Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]
Terence Tao shared Caltech 2026 slides titled Math 2.0, posted to Hacker News.
6 stories, newest first · one card per story
Terence Tao shared Caltech 2026 slides titled Math 2.0, posted to Hacker News.

Mathematicians including Terence Tao urge an OpenAI boycott after hundreds of AI proofs flood the field.

OpenAI's new math advisory group is already mired in confusion over independence and a rush of claimed breakthroughs.

Twenty-five Fields Medal winners, including Terence Tao, warn AI companies' benchmark-driven approach to mathematics is misaligned with the discipline's purpose of understanding.
25 Fields Medallists including Terence Tao issue a declaration warning that AI companies' benchmark-driven mathematics goals are misaligned with science and society.
Terence Tao warns AI agents racing to solve rumored open problems may incentivize researchers to hide directions, damaging open science.
Today 1.6K readers · 2.5K views · 778 reads · all time 189K views