[ExI] The week that changed maths forever

[Ben Zaiboc]

On 13/10/2026 21:10, BillK wrote:
>
> 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 –


'Upsetting', eh?

I suppose we'll all be complaining about AI finding cures for cancer and old age, or figuring out how to build working fusion plants, etc.

Oh, woe! AI is helping us progress! What shall we do?
-- 
Ben
"The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything." - Pablo Casals, via Albert Einstein