When AI Beats a Famous Mathematician, His Answer Is Simple: It's Smarter
aryehazan · x · 2026-10-12
Math researcher aryehazan shares a colleague exchange: puzzled that AI outperformed a famous researcher on a result, his one-line answer was "simple, it's smarter." The quip sparked a substantive debate on whether AI is genuinely smarter than human mathematicians.
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