[ExI] The week that changed math forever

[BillK]

On Fri, 9 Oct 2026 at 10:38, John Clark via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> A tool doesn't have philosophical agency but AI does, as the Hugging Face incident vividly illustrates.
> You underestimate AI at your peril.
>  John K Clark
> _______________________________________________


Brian Wang has a post about how AI is upsetting many fields, as well as maths.
BillK

<https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2026/10/math-fields-medal-winner-from-2022-describes-the-shock-of-ai-solving-math.html>

Math Fields Medal Winner from 2022 Describes the Shock of AI Solving Math
October 13, 2026 by Brian Wang

Quote:
Please resist the urge to mock the mathematicians struggling through
this moment. Whatever your field, your expertise, your passion, you
too shall one day experience what they are going through. And when you
remember your words, you will feel remorse.

It already happened to Chess players, Go players, computer
programmers, chip designers.
Here are domains in which AI systems have reached or clearly exceeded
the best human performance –
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