Dietterich: treat OpenAI's math models like a deceased mathematician's notebook
tdietterich · x · 2026-10-09
ML pioneer Thomas Dietterich offered a framing for OpenAI's math release: imagine discovering a notebook full of results left by a deceased mathematician. Our job, he argues, is to make sense of that notebook — highlighting how math AI models produce correct, deep results whose meaning still requires human mathematicians to interpret, verify, and absorb.
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