Burkov: mathematicians' AI meltdown stems from a field frozen since the 1980s
burkov · x · 2026-10-09
ML author Andriy Burkov argues the math community's meltdown over AI solving landmark puzzles is understandable: math education hasn't seriously changed since the 1980s. Million-dollar prizes and century problems justified the profession; with many now solved, he half-jokingly suggests theoretical physics — dark matter, black holes — as the refuge where AI still can't prove anything.
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