@rohanpaul_ai: Terence Tao summarized how AI is massively accelerating math career and math research. "In math, you previously had to …
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Terence Tao discusses how AI is dramatically accelerating math research, reducing the years of education needed to contribute to the frontier.
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Terence Tao summarized how AI is massively accelerating math career and math research.
“In math, you previously had to basically go through years and years of education to be a math PhD before you could contribute to the frontier of math research. But now it’s quite possible at https://t.co/Rd92G34ggA
Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai): Terence Tao: “We lived in a world with cognitive friction until very recently, where every task required us to use our brain.
So we didn’t really think about it, we just thought this was the cost of doing something intellectual. But now we have AI and the other technologies
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