AI's Rapid Progress Is Reshaping Science

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Things are getting stranger, faster than expected. And it only speeds up from here. Buckle up.

Dan McAteer@daniel_mac8

OpenAI is downplaying this for PR reasons. If you’re a mathematician, you must feel like a nuclear bomb hit, and you’re at ground zero.Reasoning models are two years-old. In that time they went from incapable of basic arithmetic to solving problems humans couldn’t solve for decades.Math is only the beginning. AI will revolutionize the entirety of the human scientific endeavor. Most of us don’t appreciate what that means.What a time to be alive!

Paper titled “The Quasi-Riemann Hypothesis,” claiming a zero-free half-plane and proof of the quasi-Riemann hypothesis