Mathematician charts how peers moved from denial to downplaying as AI solved problems
Martin778192374 · x · 2026-08-19
A math-community user rebuts the claim that AI math performance is a marketing campaign, calling it "massive cope." He observes mathematicians have continually shifted positions since AI started solving problems: first denying AI could do it, then arguing the problems weren't hard or were low-hanging fruit recombining human results, and now moving the goalposts again.
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