Terence Tao uses ChatGPT to study math while critics still call it useless
Dr_Singularity · x · 2026-07-23
The post contrasts Terence Tao using ChatGPT to understand the Jacobian conjecture with a dismissive “useless stochastic parrots” take from the other side of the AI debate.
It’s less a technical update than a sharp culture snapshot: one of the world’s top mathematicians is openly using AI as a thinking aid, while AI skeptics keep arguing it has no real value.
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