'Superhuman mathematicians' era arrives sooner than expected, say authors after OpenAI release
Singularitarian · x · 2026-10-07
Mathematician Ken Ono says their 2025 Nature Physics note 'aged quickly': OpenAI's latest release shows top-level AI-assisted mathematical discovery is no longer hypothetical. Co-authors add that nobody expected the era of 'superhuman mathematicians' to arrive by 2026 — and that it's 'a big mess.'
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