Fields Medalist flips on LLMs after AI solves a Millennium Problem: "I was shaken"
Malor777 · reddit · 2026-09-22
A Reddit post contrasts a Fields Medalist's statements 4 months apart: back then he argued LLMs aren't intelligent and understand nothing of what they say. After learning AI had solved a Millennium Prize Problem, he said: "I was shaken. An atmosphere of the end of history. It's a cataclysm unlike anything mathematics has ever known."
The post includes side-by-side screenshots, capturing a striking reversal among top mathematicians on AI capability.
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