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Wow that was your takeaway?

> “2025 was the year when AI really started being useful for many different tasks,” said Terence Tao

I think I’ll go out on a limb and agree with Terrence Tao, I think the dude is well known in the math community, or something



> go out on a limb and agree with Terrence Tao

Is AI his specialty?

> I think the dude is well known in the math community, or something

I believe this is called "appeal to authority." Which is why, instead of disagreeing with him, I suggested a more cogent endpoint that could be used to establish the facts the article's title suggests.


I think he means useful for mathematicians getting paid shilling for AI models


If anything his simping for AI models makes me more suspect of him than I ever was because my own eyes show me their limits.


Any chance your eyes are wrong? Or only people who disagree with you are.




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