LeCun on AI-era math: 'The boat reduced the importance of swimming, but enabled discovering new lands'
aminkarbasi · x · 2026-10-08
aminkarbasi highlights a Yann LeCun analogy about AI's new era in mathematics: "The invention of the boat reduced the importance of swimming, but enabled the discovery of new lands" — tools shift which skills matter while opening up whole new frontiers of exploration.
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