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Terence Tao's Blog Asks "Why Are We Even Doing All This?": What Mathematics Is For Once AI Can Solve the Problems
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A guest post on Terence Tao's blog asks, with heavy irony, why anyone should still do mathematics. We read it alongside TheoPhysEval (50 unpublished physics problems, 49 solved by the best agent), Tao's Math 2.0 threads, Derek Thompson's craft-and-conversation essay and the Simons Foundation's USD 15M program, and lay out which kinds of mathematical work AI dilutes and which become more valuable.
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