Terence Tao's blog post on advising math students sparks fight over AI progress plateau
inductionheads · x · 2026-10-09
Terence Tao shared a blog post asking "What should we tell our students?" about careers in mathematics amid AI advances. Commentator FakePsyho fired back that advice premised on AI progress plateauing is "delusional" and actively harmful, urging academics to accept the current trajectory and adapt rather than get stuck solving the problems of the past.
Related event: Tao's Blog Debates Career Advice for Math Students in the LLM Era(2 posts)→
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