When ChatGPT first came onto the scene, it wowed users with its writing abilities, but drew laughs for generating images of seven-fingered hands and struggling <a href="https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/could-ai-make-mathematicians-obsolete/?utm_source=wnyc&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=scifri" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">with basic math</a>, where 2+2 didn’t always equal 4. But more recently, things have changed: Google and OpenAI’s models <a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/2489248-deepmind-and-openai-claim-gold-in-international-mathematical-olympiad/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">bagged gold medals</a> at the International Mathematical Olympiad last year, and now <a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/2518526-mathematics-is-undergoing-the-biggest-change-in-its-history/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">some experts</a> say AI could pose an existential threat to the field of mathematics itself.
Mathematicians Emily Riehl and Daniel Litt join Host Flora Lichtman to explore how this technology could change the way math discoveries are made—and what could be lost if things go too far.
Guests:
Dr. Emily Riehl is a professor of mathematics at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD.
Dr. Daniel Litt is an associate professor of mathematics at the University of Toronto.
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