Steven Strogatz on NPR: AI is steamrolling through math
stevenstrogatz · x · 2026-10-14
Mathematician Steven Strogatz joined NPR's On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti, alongside Fields Medalist Hugo Duminil-Copin and Francis Su, to discuss AI's rapid progress in math. ChatGPT was initially poor at math — getting 84% of 1,000 algebra word problems wrong in an early 2023 study — but AI is now solving problems that stumped mathematicians for decades. The show explored what it means for human ingenuity when no hard problems remain.
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