The Navier-Stokes Week AI

Terence Tao's post, curated on eChai

  • Curated from mathstodon.xyz 3 September 2026

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    Five days before any of it, and the sentence that names what is at stake in the whole week.

    Terence Tao, in mathstodon.xyz

    Analogously to pre-atomic steel, open problems in mathematics generated before the AI era have, astonishingly, have become something resembling a non-renewable resource. [...] It may become necessary to declare certain classes of mathematical problems off-limits to automated solvers, in order to preserve their broader value to the mathematical ecosystem.

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