People joke that Terence Tao’s prompts may make ChatGPT think like Terence Tao

soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-07-23

A post riffs on Terence Tao’s ChatGPT session about understanding a Jacobian conjecture counterexample, joking that one wonders whether the model starts sounding more like Tao when prompted by him.

The attached quote says it is fascinating to read a small slice of Tao’s thinking process and the connections he makes while working through a hard math problem.

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