Fields Medalist flip: "shaken" after AI solved a Millennium Problem
Puzzleheaded-King584 · reddit · 2026-09-22
Four months after publicly saying LLMs weren't intelligent and understood nothing of what they say, a Fields Medalist reacted to AI solving a Millennium Problem: "I was shaken. An atmosphere of the end of history. It's a cataclysm unlike anything mathematics has ever known." Screenshots in the post capture the striking reversal from one of math's top minds.
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