Interestingly, Terence Tao has recently started thinking about AI, and his (publicly stated) opinions on it are … very conservative?
I find he mostly focuses on the capabilities that are already here and doesn’t really extrapolate from it in any significant way.
Really? He seems pretty bullish. He thinks it will co author math papers pretty soon. I think he just doesn’t think or at least state his thoughts on implications outside of math.
“1. This is great work, shifting once again our expectations of which benchmark challenges are within reach of either #AI-assisted or fully autonomous methods”
Interestingly, Terence Tao has recently started thinking about AI, and his (publicly stated) opinions on it are … very conservative? I find he mostly focuses on the capabilities that are already here and doesn’t really extrapolate from it in any significant way.
Really? He seems pretty bullish. He thinks it will co author math papers pretty soon. I think he just doesn’t think or at least state his thoughts on implications outside of math.
He’s clearly not completely discounting that there’s progress, but overall it doesn’t feel like he’s “updating all the way”:
This is a recent post about the deepmind math olympiad results: https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/112850716240504978
“1. This is great work, shifting once again our expectations of which benchmark challenges are within reach of either #AI-assisted or fully autonomous methods”