The world's leading mathematicians were stunned by how adept artificial intelligence is at doing their jobs
    • General_Effort@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      Not really. They are powered by language models, after all.

      Still, much of math is about manipulating symbols. So it is not mind-blowing that a certain understanding of math is there and can be improved on. But math also involves an understanding of space, or geometry. There I wouldn’t expect much.

      Anyway. My 2 top takeaways from the article:

      1. Mathematicians are hired to improve the major AI services.

      2. They are required to use E2EE (Signal) for communication so that their work doesn’t get picked up and used for LLM-training before the time is ready.