Why mathematicians call the OpenAI wall the 'death' of a field — the damage is real
stevenstrogatz · x · 2026-10-09
Math blogger Thomas Bloom shared a post pushing back on a common misreading: some assume mathematicians calling OAI's plateau the 'death' of a field merely lost an overpaid hobby of proving theorems.
The quoted post argues that's a misunderstanding — the damage is real, and the author expands the argument in a blog post on what current AI progress means for the practice of mathematics.
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