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this mathematician won the 2026 Fields Medal, then stepped away from academia to join OpenAI’s safety team. what’s fascinating is how balanced his view is on AI. his story is WILD: >be Jacob Tsimerman >spend 13 years on a math problem >win the 2026 Fields Medal >an LLM finds a mistake in one of your proofs >you fix it, but the LLM couldn't >“I think my part is going to be very small” >realize where things are going >imagine AI solving decade-long math problems in weeks or even days >say…
TOEwithCurt@TOEwithCurt11h ago
Jacob Tsimerman, who won the Fields Medal this year, thinks mathematics will soon rest on proofs no one understands. He says it’s already true of many of his own theorems, which build on accepted results whose proofs he doesn’t know. Full episode: https://t.co/U3gQZ70cca https://t.co/FaV41GltNI
