Jason Palmer
speaker
3,607 appearances
96 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 6d ago
Jason Palmer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 96 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 32.
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The Economist.
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Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.
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I'm Jason Palmer.
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Today on the show, a hard look at the counterterrorism machinery passed after 9-11 and a tribute to a champion of Chinese traditional opera.
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We talked yesterday about how artificial intelligence was, on balance, creating jobs, a pattern you see whenever transformative tech breaks onto the scene.
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Today, we want to look at a transformation in the heady world of higher mathematics.
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OpenAI says it's cracked something called the Navier-Stokes Existence and Smoothness Problem.
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It's one of the Millennium Prize problems, seven devilishly difficult mathematical mysteries first listed in 2000.
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The prize for cracking one is a million dollars.
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Look, AI is better than humans at lots of stuff, and it should come as no surprise that it can power through equations and theorems that have stumped humans for decades.
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But here's the thing about mathematics at this level.
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It's not just about the solution.
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It's very much about how you, or it, got there.
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So let's start in really basic terms here.
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What is the problem that's been solved?
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Now, normally when these kinds of centuries-old problems are solved, there is great elation in the mathematics community, but you hinted earlier that is not the case.
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Yeah, it's
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Well, this is what I wanted to ask you about, because I can tell you feel strongly about this story.
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Shouldn't we expect this story to play out over and over again, the rest of the millennium problems to fall, the rest of the conundra of the mathematics world to just simply be solved, skipped to, I guess?
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What does that mean for maths and where it goes?
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