Nathaniel Whittemore
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51,694 appearances
202 recordings
3 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 2d ago
Nathaniel Whittemore’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 — 202 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 31.
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For example, right now we have the multiplayer AI sprint for Teams Live.
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It's all about finding the agents that are going to live at the intersections of your work, which I think is going to be a key trend for the months to come.
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Again, you can find a link to that at the top of AI Daily Brief.ai.
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Prominent mathematician Terence Tao has led 25 field medalists in an open letter objecting to AI companies engaging with academic mathematics.
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It seems like so long ago, but prior to the middle of last week, the biggest conversation in AI was about OpenAI solving a Millennium Prize problem.
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NYU professor Tristan Buckmaster, who had been working on the problem over the past year using AI tools, questioned whether OpenAI could have accessed his logs to scoop the prize.
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OpenAI denied accessing the logs and also claimed to have made significant progress on a second Millennium Prize problem.
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With rumors swirling that Anthropic had solved yet another problem, there is a meaningful prospect that three of the six outstanding problems could be solved this year.
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These problems have stood for decades as the pinnacle achievement in the field.
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So it is unsurprising that an AI solving them is raising big questions about research mathematics more broadly.
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On Friday, Fields medalist Terence Tao led 25 of his peers in signing an open letter called A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics.
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The misalignment they pointed to was not between AI and humanity, but between the AI companies and the scientific fields they're entering.
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The mathematicians wrote, "...over the last few months, the mathematical capabilities of LLMs have improved dramatically, to the point that they can solve major outstanding problems in many fields of mathematics."
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However, the push by AI companies to solve mathematical problems as a benchmark is detrimental to the science of mathematics and to the mathematical community.
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The goals of the AI companies and the goals of the mathematical community are severely misaligned.
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We see these as part of broader alignment issues impacting other scientific and creative professions, as well as the whole of society.
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Now, some view this statement as lamenting a loss of status among mathematicians.
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Solving a Millennium Prize problem makes one a shoo-in for the Fields Medal, which is the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in mathematics.
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Yet when you dig in, the letter was more about how automating scientific progress undermines the entire endeavor.
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The letter stated, Famous problems have often served as landmarks and lighthouses against which one can measure an improved understanding of this landscape.
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