Could AI conquer all of math within months? One argument says humans are just bad primates at it
burny_tech · x · 2026-09-06
William Bryk argues we must accept that all of mathematics could fall to AI within months — because math isn't fundamentally "hard," primates are just bad at it. To an AI, going from average ability to Terence Tao-level may only mean 10x context window, RL run scale, and test-time compute. Amplifier burnytech adds: humans will still map the mathematical landscape; AIs will be "helicopters" taking us wherever we want to go.
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