Terence Tao says punching problems into AI is the unimaginative use — 'Math 2.0' is coming
burny_tech · x · 2026-11-04
Mathematician Terence Tao argues that simply feeding your favorite problem into an AI is the unimaginative use of AI in mathematics. The larger frontier, he says, is humans prompting AI in creative ways — what he calls "Math 2.0" — and it's arriving soon.
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