Prominent mathematician's "AI will do routine work" take is a fantasy, researcher says
LucaAmb · x · 2026-09-18
A highly respected prominent mathematician reportedly remarked that AI would solve routine problems, freeing top minds for deep work. The author pushes back: "with all due respect, that's a fantasy."
The author argues current AI is only good at constructing examples in extremely well-specified scenarios; the truly creative part "might be coming tomorrow, or never."
Related event: Mathematician Dismisses Claims AI Will Handle Routine Math(2 posts)→
More from Models
- Leaked Gemini 4 Pro specs claim 2M context, $2.25/M input — likely bogus — airesearch12 · 2026-09-18
- MORENA: 1.5B African LLM trained from scratch on $40K of GPUs beats Google and Meta models — letandrewcook · 2026-09-18
- NotebookLM adds real-time chat in ~100 languages, video overviews, free year of Google AI for students — tokumin · 2026-09-18
- NirantK spots hints OpenAI may be distilling from Chinese models too — NirantK · 2026-09-18
- Anthropic says Claude now "leads" 26% of its frontier model research — but the metric is fuzzy — The Decoder · 2026-09-18
- DeepSeek users hype a major upgrade to the model — teortaxesTex · 2026-09-18