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Terence Tao

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Lex Fridman Podcast
#472 โ€“ Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

That was great.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#472 โ€“ Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

Saved me like five, ten minutes of typing.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#472 โ€“ Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

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

Lex Fridman Podcast
#472 โ€“ Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

What do you think?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#472 โ€“ Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

Okay.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#472 โ€“ Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

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

Lex Fridman Podcast
#472 โ€“ Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

There will be

Lex Fridman Podcast
#472 โ€“ Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

math collaborations with AI.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#472 โ€“ Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

So not Fields Medal winning, but actual research level math papers.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#472 โ€“ Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

Like published ideas that are in part generated by AI.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#472 โ€“ Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

Maybe not the ideas, but at least some of the computations, the verifications.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#472 โ€“ Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

Has that already happened?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#472 โ€“ Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

Has it already happened?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#472 โ€“ Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

Yeah, there are problems that were solved

Lex Fridman Podcast
#472 โ€“ Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

by a complicated process, conversing with AI to propose things, and the human goes and tries it, and the contract doesn't work, but it might propose a different idea.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#472 โ€“ Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

It's hard to disentangle exactly.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#472 โ€“ Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

There are certainly math results which could only have been accomplished because there was a human mathematician and an AI involved.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#472 โ€“ Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

But it's hard to sort of disentangle credit.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#472 โ€“ Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

I mean, these tools, they do not replicate all the skills needed to do mathematics, but they can replicate sort of some non-trivial percentage of them, 30, 40%.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#472 โ€“ Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

So they can fill in gaps.