Tracy Mumford
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8,483 appearances
118 recordings
3 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 4d ago
Tracy Mumford’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Back in the year 2000, a mathematics institute laid out a challenge.
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It identified seven legendary, enormously complex, unsolved math problems and said it would award $1 million to anyone who could crack them.
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They were dubbed the Millennium Problems, and the whole challenge was designed to push the world's leading mathematicians to new heights.
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Yesterday, OpenAI announced that its AI technology has solved one of them.
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The tech giant said that one of its latest models cracked what's known as the Navier-Stokes problem, which relates to the movement of water and other fluids.
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OpenAI said its model solved it in just 88 hours, with as many as 10,000 AI agents working in concert.
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As a side note, running that amount of AI systems likely cost millions of dollars.
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In the math world, some experts are excited about the breakthrough, while others are urging caution about turning over the biggest problems in math to AI.
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In an interview with The Times, one mathematician at UCLA, who's widely regarded as one of the world's leading mathematicians, warned that using AI to solve problems like this could weaken humans' understanding of math.
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He said that working at and puzzling through intensely difficult problems teaches you something, comparing it to going to the gym to lift weights.
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He said that if you let AI do it, quote, it's like having machines that can lift weights for you.
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And finally, AI might be out there with its fancy math pulling a Goodwill hunting, but when it comes to house hunting, sorry, had to do it, it's causing some issues.
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More and more listings for houses and apartments are relying on AI to do virtual staging.
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Instead of having to move in nice looking furniture or asking a tenant to clean up, you just have AI reimagine the space and post those altered images.
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Real estate listings have, of course, used tools like Photoshop to zhuzh things up for a long time.
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But some people say that the AI boom is going too far, adding lots of natural light, which is never actually going to pour through those windows, or upgrading the bathroom fixtures, redoing the kitchen cabinets.
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It's raising concerns about false advertising.
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Things have gotten to the point that some cities and states are moving to crack down on deceptive AI real estate images.
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California and Wisconsin have passed laws requiring real estate agents to disclose when they use AI to significantly alter listings.
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And other states are considering that kind of rule too.
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