Welcome to the AI crisis in math

My guest today is Robert Hart, The Verge’s London-based AI reporter. Robert recently wrote a fantastic story for us about the debate raging inside the world of mathematics — and the existential crisis over what it means that new frontier AI models have become very good at math in a shockingly short period of time. 

I wanted to dive into all of this with Robert, who actually spoke to some of the most accomplished mathematicians working today to figure out what’s hype and what’s real — and to get a sense of just how exciting, and how scary, all of this is. 

Read the full interview transcript on The Verge.

Links: 

The AI takeover of mathematics has begun | The Verge

Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science | OpenAI

An unreleased Anthropic model made progress on the Riemann hypothesis| TechCrunch

OpenAI’s amazing — but vastly oversold — new model Astra | Gary Marcus

OpenAI’s math breakthrough played to AI’s strengths | Understanding AI

Why the legendary Erdős problems are falling to AI | Quanta

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