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The fact that you can now do math at scale, that's the game changer.
We're getting close to this place where things are really going to shift.
It's at least as impactful as the interaction of the internet.
There's a profound transformation underway in the world of mathematics.
We used to have human computers before, and then calculators came,
and computers came, and we were able to do these large calculations.
Now you have this ability to reason about very complex things.
Within one or two years.
AI will just be a tool that if you do n't use it as a mathematician,
you 're putting yourself at a disadvantage for no reason at all, really.
At this point, you're thinking, AI changing the nature of everything in a given field?
It doesn't sound revolutionary anymore.
But just remember that only a few years ago, large language models were famously awful at arithmetic.
As AI models have got better, though, so too have their problem-solving, reasoning and mathematical skills.
I do really hope that if it might take us 100 years to solve Millennium Prize problems,
maybe when AI and human combine together, we can shorten the times.