AI Math Skeptics Pushed Back On—'Give It 2 More Months,' Researcher Quips
AvivTamar1 · x · 2026-10-07
@rockt argues the point of math isn't just proving theorems placed in front of you (even decade-old open problems), but inventing the most exciting concepts and conjectures that open entirely new kinds of progress. ML researcher Aviv Tamar quips back: "Yeah yeah, give it 2 more months :)"—implying frontier models will catch up on conjecture-making soon.
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