Last month, UCLA professor Terrence Tao, considered “the world's greatest living mathematician,” used ChapGPT's o1 inference model to correctly answer complex analytical questions using “many hints.” He compared himself to a graduate student who is “mediocre, but not completely incompetent.'' I challenge you.
AI may never beat human teachers, he now tells The Atlantic. “There is one important difference [today] The relationship between graduate students and AI is that graduate students learn. If you tell the AI that an approach isn't working, it may apologize and temporarily correct course, but in some cases it may revert back to what it previously tried. ”
The good news for math geniuses is that AI and mathematicians are likely to always be collaborators, and instead of replacing math geeks, AI will allow us to explore large-scale problems that were previously unreachable. Tao added. The future Tao says: “You might have a project and ask, 'What if I tried this approach?' Instead of spending hours actually trying to make it work, you can guide GPT through it. I’ll get it.”