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Susan Zhang highlights shortage of professional mathematicians in public AI discussions on X, noting combinatorial geometrists are rarer still

Yoav replied that AI math prioritizes inventing concepts over proving theorems.

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OPSusan Zhang#58Susan Zhang@SUCHENZANG

all this ai math talk makes me realize: - there's not enough professional mathematicians around who waste their time on X - there's even fewer combinatorial geometrists doing the above - we all worship math as a final beacon of human reasoning intelligence - we all secretly want to be smarter than mathematicians - the people who know the least about math and ai/llms always have the most opinions

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@suchenzang @yacineMTB even if we do consider math as the final frontier, it is not the kind of math that proves stuff, but the kinds of math that invents new concepts and then asks questions about them

Susan ZhangSusan Zhang@suchenzang

all this ai math talk makes me realize: - there's not enough professional mathematicians around who waste their time on X - there's even fewer combinatorial geometrists doing the above - we all worship math as a final beacon of human reasoning intelligence - we all secretly want to be smarter than mathematicians - the people who know the least about math and ai/llms always have the most opinions

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