Terence Tao just published a 27 slide deck saying the AI math hype only shows you the wins..every week you see a new post.. AI solved an open math problem..Tao says that feed hides most of the story..the failed attempts never get posted.. the compute bill never gets posted..

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Terence Tao just published a 27 slide deck saying the AI math hype only shows you the wins..
every week you see a new post.. AI solved an open math problem..
Tao says that feed hides most of the story..
the failed attempts never get posted.. the compute bill never gets posted..
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Terence Tao just published a 27 slide deck saying the AI math hype only shows you the wins..

every week you see a new post.. AI solved an open math problem..

Tao says that feed hides most of the story..
the failed attempts never get posted.. the compute bill never gets posted.. and most frontier problems are STILL unsolved..

then he went further..
blindly chasing more solved problems is now hurting math..

open problems were never the goal.. they were lighthouses.. the real value was everything mathematicians learned on the way there..
let AI jump straight to the answer and the whole journey disappears..

in 1976 Appel and Haken proved the four color theorem using a computer.. and many mathematicians refused to accept it because no human could check it by hand..

50 years later the fear has flipped..
the computer is right.. but nobody understands WHY..

so Tao asks you one question..

if an AI cured cancer and passed every trial.. would you inject it before a single human understood how it works..

you spent centuries thinking math was about answers..
answers are now cheap..

understanding is the new scarce thing