"Math requires pen, paper, and roughly $1 trillion of compute" — AI circle joke goes around
Polymarket · x · 2026-09-10
A circulating quip corrects the classic claim that mathematics only needs pen and paper: it also requires "roughly $1 trillion of compute infrastructure." The joke resonates with how frontier math research is now intertwined with massive AI compute, echoing recent lab–mathematician collaborations at OpenAI and DeepMind.
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