Terry Tao's 'Math 2.0' Caltech lecture sparks jokes about general intelligence
inductionheads · x · 2026-10-11
A slide from Terence Tao's 'Math 2.0' public lecture at Caltech went viral. Andrew Curran argued that a Stage 4 cancer patient cured by a treatment wouldn't care whether humans understand its mechanism — implying AI may advance math beyond human comprehension. @teortaxesTex quipped that Tao himself makes him doubt the existence of general intelligence, with others echoing the joke.
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