AI Master's Student Worries About the Future of Math and Physics
Proud_Cantaloupe_695 · reddit · 2026-10-15
An AI master's student working at an AI startup voices concern about the future of math and physics: language models are advancing rapidly on verifiable tasks, recently attempting Navier-Stokes (amid controversy), and models that erred on assignments a year ago now rarely make mistakes. Quant firms reportedly use LLMs heavily for math research, and OpenAI solved roughly 300 unsolved math problems. The author argues models already beat most people, if not the top ten mathematicians, and cites Terence Tao's podcast agreeing models are close to surpassing human mathematicians, asking what humans should study in the future.
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