Yang-Hui He
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
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Um, so this is just kind of I like your analogy.
This is like the Chinese, uh the Chinese room, right?
Can you do mathematics without actually understanding anything?
You know, personally I'm a I'm a little biased because having interacted with so many undergraduate students before I moved to the London Institute so I don't have to teach anymore.
Um teach undergraduates, uh I've noticed, you know, I
Maybe one one one can say the vast majority of undergraduates are just pattern matching.
Whether there's any understanding.
I think this is one of the reasons why you know why chat why why Chat GPT does things so well.
It's not just because it's not because, oh, you know, LLMs are great, large language models are great.
It's it's more that most things that humans do are so s without comprehension anyway.
So that's why it's kind of this pattern matching idea.
And this isn't this is also true for mathematics.
Right.
Right, right.
No, no, I I completely agree.
I mean, um, this is not this is not to criticize undergraduate studies.
You know, I think in the and and undergraduate students, it's just that, you know, uh
it it's it's just it's part of being human.
We we p kind of pattern match and then then we do it the best we can.
And then of course if you're Terry Tao, you know, you actually understand what you're doing.
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