Altman: mathematicians went from 'we're finished' to acceptance in five days; Tao on Math 2.0
新智元 · wechat · 2026-10-24
Altman recounted the math community's arc after OpenAI released 700+ manuscripts following the Navier-Stokes result: disbelief, panic, anger, then acceptance within about five days, and declared "superintelligence" already present in narrow math reasoning. Terence Tao says math's romantic era of solo breakthroughs is fading, complains OpenAI's outputs are uneven and unexplained — math is experiencing "indigestion" — and welcomes the Simons Foundation's $15M fund with OpenAI and Anthropic for verifying AI results. Both agree human judgment in evaluating AI proofs is the skill that matters most.
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