Terence Tao: Use AI to produce better work, not just more PDFs
littmath · x · 2026-08-27
Tao opens his thread arguing we should use AI systems to produce better work as opposed to more PDFs. One simple thing we can do now: identify and fix lots of extant errors in the literature.
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