Terence Tao's 'Math 2.0' Caltech lecture sparks debate on AI explainability
inductionheads · x · 2026-10-11
Terence Tao gave his 'Math 2.0' public lecture at Caltech, and a slide from it sparked debate: Andrew Curran argued that if a cure actually worked, almost any Stage 4 cancer patient would say human comprehension of its mechanism is irrelevant — a defense of AI that solves problems without being humanly understood.
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