Terence Tao warns on AI's consequences for mathematics
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Tao's three mathstodon posts argue solving puzzles is not the same as new insight, and allude to the OpenAI-NYU-Anthropic Navier-Stokes controversy, where OpenAI spent $22.5 million to scoop Alpöge and Buckmaster. OpenAI wrote it "cannot rule out" that de-identified user data improved its models.
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