Terry Tao: AI's closure of ML was bad; in pure math it'd be a civilizational tragedy
KordingLab · x · 2026-09-09
Terry Tao argues that ChatGPT's release ended the openness of the ML/AI field, though that community was always unusually close to industry for a scientific field. He warns that a similar closure happening in pure mathematics would be a civilizational tragedy.
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