Mathematician Terence Tao:
"we're seeing the end of the romantic era of mathematics, the age of heroes. we're moving into an industrial era where math becomes large-scale, done in big teams like the other sciences"
We're entering, rather unwillingly, a new era where exciting new things are possible, but some things are being lost
Terence Tao just published a 27 slide deck saying the AI math hype only shows you the wins..
every week you see a new post.. AI solved an open math problem..
Tao says that feed hides most of the story..
the failed attempts never get posted.. the compute bill never gets posted.. and most frontier problems are STILL unsolved..
then he went further..
blindly chasing more solved problems is now hurting math..
open problems were never the goal.. they were lighthouses.. the real value was everything mathematicians learned on the way there..
let AI jump straight to the answer and the whole journey disappears..
in 1976 Appel and Haken proved the four color theorem using a computer.. and many mathematicians refused to accept it because no human could check it by hand..
50 years later the fear has flipped..
the computer is right.. but nobody understands WHY..
so Tao asks you one question..
if an AI cured cancer and passed every trial.. would you inject it before a single human understood how it works..
you spent centuries thinking math was about answers..
answers are now cheap..
understanding is the new scarce thing
China has fallen behind in the AI race.
In July, Kimi K3 was supposed to be China's answer to American AI.
Today it couldn't even render a lava lamp.
Claude Sonnet 5.5 and GPT 6.1 Sol nailed it. Those are America's mid tier models.
Right now, China can't keep up with America's second best.
这就是为什么 X 依然是全球科技圈唯一不可替代的平台,世界上没有第二个平台能发生这种事,@elonmusk 快看看发生了什么神奇的事情吧!
OpenClaw 的 Android App 在 Google Play 卡了整整一周,创始人 Peter Steinberger 在 X 上随手发了句:“有认识 Google 的朋友能帮个忙吗?”
结果 Google CEO Sundar Pichai 亲自下场回复:“在跟了。”
2 个小时后,审核火速通过。
在这里,没有公关团队层层过滤的通稿,全球最有权力的人依然在拿着手机自己刷推、自己回复,它用最暴力的方式砸碎了大公司的官僚科层,把万亿巨头的 CEO 变成了随叫随到的超级客服,
我相信,只要这个特质还在,X 就永远是无可匹敌的 Global Town Square。