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Cal Newport takes a critical look at recent AI News.
Video from today’s episode: youtube.com/calnewportmedia
(0:00) Did AI just “solve” math?
(2:38) What OpenAI did
(6:30) Question #1 - Is this result that important?
(7:34) Question #2 - Does this mean LLMs are now smarter than human mathematicians?
(17:50) Question #3 - Does this mean all equally hard challenges will now be conquered by AI?
(23:27) Question #4 - What is the future of math?
(28:27) Concluding thoughts
Links:
Buy Cal’s latest book, “Slow Productivity” at www.calnewport.com/slow
https://openai.com/index/model-disproves-discrete-geometry-conjecture/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br4l9YjCyRU
https://x.com/PeterDiamandis/status/2058956956077871275
https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/74c24085-19b0-4534-9c90-465b8e29ad73/unit-distance-remarks.pdf
Thanks to Jesse Miller for production and mastering and Nate Mechler for research and newsletter.
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By Cal Newport4.8
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Cal Newport takes a critical look at recent AI News.
Video from today’s episode: youtube.com/calnewportmedia
(0:00) Did AI just “solve” math?
(2:38) What OpenAI did
(6:30) Question #1 - Is this result that important?
(7:34) Question #2 - Does this mean LLMs are now smarter than human mathematicians?
(17:50) Question #3 - Does this mean all equally hard challenges will now be conquered by AI?
(23:27) Question #4 - What is the future of math?
(28:27) Concluding thoughts
Links:
Buy Cal’s latest book, “Slow Productivity” at www.calnewport.com/slow
https://openai.com/index/model-disproves-discrete-geometry-conjecture/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br4l9YjCyRU
https://x.com/PeterDiamandis/status/2058956956077871275
https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/74c24085-19b0-4534-9c90-465b8e29ad73/unit-distance-remarks.pdf
Thanks to Jesse Miller for production and mastering and Nate Mechler for research and newsletter.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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