Terence Tao

I mean, one phase shift of this type that happened in the past was the adoption of LaTeX.

So LaTeX is this typesetting language that all mathematicians use now.

So in the past, people used all kinds of word processors and typewriters and whatever.

But at some point, LaTeX became easier to use than all other competitors.

And people would switch within a few years.

It was just a dramatic phase shift.

Well, it depends on the level of collaboration.

No, like it deserves to be, to get the Fields Medal.

Like, so half and half.

Already, like, I can imagine a Fields Medal winning paper having some AI assistance in writing it, you know, just, you know, like the old complete alone is already, I use it, like it speeds up my own writing.

Like, you know, you can have a theorem, and you have a proof, and the proof has three cases.

And I write down the proof of the first case, and the autocomplete just suggests that now here's how the proof of the second case could work.

And it was exactly correct.

That was great.

Saved me like five, ten minutes of typing.

But in that case, the AI system doesn't get the field's metal.

What do you think?

Okay.

So I gave a prediction in print about 2026, which is now next year.

There will be