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18 stories and discussions about mathematicians, aggregated from every source we track.
[This is a guest post by Amit Sahai. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] When I was an undergraduate student, I remember talking with…
[This is a guest post by Po-Shen Loh, crossposted from his blog, where an illustrated version appears. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. —…
[This is a guest post by Amit Sahai. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] When I was an undergraduate student, I remember talking with…
The challenge of controlling AI will unleash a tsunami of skilled jobs, seeking people with both expertise and a love of humanity.
Two years ago programmers were all like, “What I do is code.
Google made a major breakthrough in quantum computing. To prevent the results from being misused, the company kept them secret. That backfired
[This is a guest post by a coalition of Caltech mathematicians: the original organizers of Mathathon (Alvan Arulandu, Andrea Li, Avni Garg, Brian Zhao, Caiman Moreno-Earle, Sathvik Redrouthu), two …
What Angry Mathematicians Can Teach Us About AI’s Real Crisis
After a long hiatus, the problem, which was likely inspired by juggling, has finally been resolved by a group of young mathematicians.
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After a long hiatus, the problem, which was likely inspired by juggling, has finally been resolved by a group of young mathematicians.
After a long hiatus, the problem, which was likely inspired by juggling, has finally been resolved by a group of young mathematicians.
After a long hiatus, the problem, which was likely inspired by juggling, has finally been resolved by a group of young mathematicians.
Powerful AI models have created an existential risk to the field, but researchers can’t stop relying on them because they’re too useful.
In a chaotic few months, OpenAI has demonstrated it can do two things with remarkable consistency: make impressive breakthroughs in mathematics, then colossally screw up announcing them. OpenAI is now trying to do better. Somehow, it has botched that too. OpenAI's latest attempt to repair fractured relations with a mathematical community it has repeatedly alienated is to consult a new independent advisory group of elite practitioners. But mathematicians speaking to The Verge , including one of the group's members, describe a messy and confusing affair bearing many of the hallmarks of OpenAI's previous rushed forays into mathematics, suggest … Read the full story at The Verge.
After turning a string of spectacular mathematical results into a reputational crisis , OpenAI is consulting human mathematicians to help it figure out a less disastrous path forward. On Monday, the company announced a new independent panel of mathematicians tasked with advising it and other AI companies on their interactions with mathematical research and the wider mathematics community, including how new results are presented and released. Its abrupt arrival caught many mathematicians by surprise. Researchers told The Verge the group is a good first step, but many said they were left with basic questions about what it will actually do, how … Read the full story at The Verge.