Surprising AI breakthroughs raise soul-searching questions for mathematicians

Letter 27 Aug United Kingdom

Whether mathematics thrives or perishes in the age of AI depends on what it is that society values in the human intellect, writes Dr Henry Bradford I share Kasra Rafi and Bruce Schneier’s impression that recent mathematical breakthroughs by AI consist in clever recombination of existing ideas, not development of truly novel theory ( No, AI doesn’t mean the end of mathematics – at least not yet, 25

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