A breakthrough towards the Riemann hypothesis(mathstodon.xyz)

516 points by pera 2 years ago | 144 comments

A Mastodon post by Terence Tao describing Guth and Maynard's improvement to Ingham's 1940 zero density bound for the Riemann zeta function.

Quantitative AI progress needs accurate and transparent evaluation(mathstodon.xyz)

196 points by bertman 1 year ago | 96 comments

Terence Tao: Solving problems by abstracting away highly relevant information(mathstodon.xyz)

5 points by bertman 1 year ago | 0 comments

Terence Tao on O1(mathstodon.xyz)

626 points by dselsam 2 years ago | 404 comments

Mastodon post by mathematician Terence Tao describing his experiments with OpenAI's o1 model on research-level mathematical tasks.

Terence Tao: The role of small organizations in society has shrunk significantly(mathstodon.xyz)

968 points by bertman 1 year ago | 490 comments

A Mastodon post by mathematician Terence Tao reflecting on how society operates at four scales and how the role of small organized groups has shrunk.

“Erdos problem #728 was solved more or less autonomously by AI”(mathstodon.xyz)

590 points by cod1r 9 months ago | 334 comments

Terence Tao's Mastodon post reporting that Erdős problem #728 was solved more or less autonomously by AI, and discussing emerging AI-powered capabilities in mathematics.