'Just a dumb next-Fields-medal predicting machine': AI skeptics' insult becomes a compliment
basedjensen · x · 2026-10-07
A viral quip inverts the classic 'stochastic parrot' insult: 'it's just a dumb next-Fields-medal predicting machine.' What used to be a dismissal now reads as unintentional praise, given models increasingly performing at the frontier of mathematical research.
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