Terence Tao: We Built AI But Don't Understand How It Works
mtizard · x · 2026-10-17
Mathematician Terence Tao posed one of the most thought-provoking questions of our generation: we built AI without designing what it can do — we set up a process and its abilities grew out of it. For the first time we've made a mind-like thing we can fully inspect but can't explain. What does that say about how much we really understand intelligence, even our own?
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