Bo Wang: Mathematics enters its 'ImageNet era' as AI reshapes research
BoWang87 · x · 2026-11-16
Harvard professor Bo Wang, a prominent figure in AI for science, shared that mathematics has entered its "ImageNet era" — drawing the analogy that large-scale data and AI are transforming mathematical research the way the ImageNet dataset ignited deep learning. The remark signals that, in the view of a senior researcher, AI-assisted mathematical discovery has reached an inflection point for the field.
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