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 
<a href="https://openai.com/index/model-disproves-discrete-geometry-conjecture/">https://openai.com/index/model-disproves-discrete-geometry-conjecture/</a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br4l9YjCyRU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br4l9YjCyRU</a>
<a href="https://x.com/PeterDiamandis/status/2058956956077871275">https://x.com/PeterDiamandis/status/2058956956077871275</a>
<a href="https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/74c24085-19b0-4534-9c90-465b8e29ad73/unit-distance-remarks.pdf">https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/74c24085-19b0-4534-9c90-465b8e29ad73/unit-distance-remarks.pdf</a>
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