Fields Medalist Richard Borcherds on AI and math: 'AI is already better than me'
TOEwithCurt · x · 2026-11-03
Curt Jaimungal's podcast features Fields Medalist Richard Borcherds (UC Berkeley, proved Monstrous Moonshine) and Eric Weinstein on AI and mathematics: what math is about if AI can do it, and what's left for the next generation of mathematicians. Borcherds said in October that 'AI is already better than me at everything,' while Weinstein calls mathematicians' public self-descriptions a 'suicidal aesthetic.' The episode also covers why recent weeks in math and physics 'changed almost everything.'
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