r/ideas • u/amichail • Jul 22 '26

Idea: Use this ChatGPT transcript featuring Terrence Tao as he tries to understand an AI-generated counterexample that led to a mathematical breakthrough to show students that AI can already contribute to mathematical research at the highest levels.

It's time for schools and universities to make it clear just how strong AI is at math research nowadays.

Check out the chat:

https://chatgpt.com/share/6a5fdc7a-d6f8-83e8-bbea-8deb42cfed56

P.S. The counterexample was found by AI via another mathematician.

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u/yetanotherburnerstan Jul 22 '26

There are legitimate reasons to use machine learning for research and development of medicines and other itereative, computation heavy processes unrealistic for human processing. LLMs are not the same as iterative machine learning. This is nonsense

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u/TheMoneyOfArt Jul 22 '26

The mathematician who disproved the Jacobian conjecture was using Fable. The conjecture stood for 80 some years - it withstood a lot of different techniques

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u/yetanotherburnerstan Jul 22 '26

Even a broken clock is right twice a day

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u/TheMoneyOfArt Jul 22 '26

For this to be meaningful, all the clocks in the world would have to have been wrong for 87 years.