Experienced mathematicians warn up-and-comers to stay away from the Collatz conjecture. It’s a siren song, they say: Fall under its trance and you may never do meaningful work again. The Collatz ...
AI won’t only enable professional researchers to supercharge their research efforts, but it could get interested amateurs ...
There are suggestions that AI could revolutionize research in science and math in the coming years, but humans could still ...
Terence Tao is often called the “Mozart of Math.” A child prodigy born in Australia, Tao, 50, is now at the top of his field at the University of California at Los Angeles, working in the rarefied ...
AI isn’t taking the real test: GPT models “solving” International Math Olympiad (IMO) problems are often operating under very different conditions—rewrites, retries, human edits. Tao’s warning: Fields ...
Tao was asked about the impact of AI on the field of math, because he’d recently posted some scathing comments about OpenAI’s latest and supposedly greatest GPT o1 model. Touted as the first model ...
The books will invite readers on a tour of transformational ideas that have shaped our modern understanding of the universe. Quanta Books is delighted to announce two new upcoming books by ...
Carina Hong, 24, raised $64 million to build an AI mathematician that discovers new theorems and solves century-old problems.