Gaël Varoquaux compiles his AI blog series: a researcher's take on AI and society
GaelVaroquaux · x · 2026-10-12
Inria research director and scikit-learn core developer Gaël Varoquaux has compiled his series of AI blog posts (originally a French Les Echos column), explaining AI's societal questions from a researcher's perspective.
- Notable pieces: "How much plagiarism is there in the mathematical genius of big AI?" on how OpenAI models solving famous math problems echo researchers' unfinished work; "Will Intellectual Bulldozers Solve Math?" on an AI disproving an 80-year-old conjecture.
- Other topics include tool-using AI agents, decomposition improving reasoning, and whether Go-style superintelligence could emerge in fundamental mathematics.
- Each post has an English version plus links to the original French papers.
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