Terence Tao

You're there to just do research.

And like the first few weeks you're there, like it's great.

You're getting all these papers written up that you've been wanting to do for a long time.

You're thinking about problems for blocks of hours of a time.

But I find if I stay there for more than several months, I run out of inspiration somehow.

I get bored.

I actually surf the internet a lot more.

You actually do need a certain level of distraction in your life.

It somehow adds enough randomness and temperature, high temperature if you need.

So yeah, I don't know the optimal way to schedule my life.

It just seems to work.

I mean, in some ways, they're already doing frontier math that is super intelligent that humans can't do.

But it's a different frontier from what we're used to.

I mean, you could argue that calculators were doing frontier math that humans could not accomplish.

But it wasn't number crunching.

But replacing Terry Tao.

Completely.

I mean, what do you want me for?

I'm not sure we've... It might not be the right question to ask.

I think within a decade, a lot of things that mathematicians currently do, where we spend a lot of the bulk of our time doing it, and a lot of stuff we put in our papers today can be done by AI.