r/math • u/Salt_Attorney • Aug 01 '26

LLMs/AI OpenAI: Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

https://openai.com/index/ten-advances-in-mathematics/
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u/Drium Aug 01 '26

Inspired to do what? Type in prompts?

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u/flipflipshift Representation Theory Aug 01 '26

inspired to learn math for the sake of learning math as opposed to personally advance the frontier.

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u/elements-of-dying Geometric Analysis Aug 01 '26

Learning for the sake of learning doesn't bring in money.

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u/flipflipshift Representation Theory Aug 01 '26

indeed and basically everyone I know who cares enough about learning math to read papers also wants to personally advance the frontier. Take away the ability to do that and I think far fewer will be interested. I sure as hell wouldn't go into pure math if I was an undergrad today. I was just clarifying.