Terry Tao example against AI doom: the paper once feared to 'kill maths' has 21,000+ citations
IgorCarron · x · 2026-09-12
Igor Carron cites Terry Tao's latest comments (via Josh Gans) to argue doomers shouldn't dominate AI discourse: Tao was once seen as killing mathematics, yet his compressed sensing paper with Candès and Romberg liberated signal processing forever, with 21,000+ citations — a reminder that bleak predictions about fields often miss the mark.
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