Humans vs AI in math: soroban mental-calculator feats still stun
francoisfleuret · x · 2026-09-07
AI researcher François Fleuret weighs in on the current state of humans vs AI in mathematics, sharing the Wikipedia entry on the soroban (Japanese abacus) alongside a video. Soroban-trained mental calculators can sum long strings of numbers faster than calculators and many AI demos, a striking counterpoint in the human-vs-AI math debate.
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