University of Toronto mathematician Daniel Litt on the risk that AI narrows mathematics when everyone runs the same generative slot machine: "We've seen examples where three or four or five papers with the exact same proof of the exact same theorem have come out within a couple… Show more

University of Toronto mathematician Daniel Litt on how AI has changed academic mathematics' reward incentives, and how easily he proved it: "The goal of mathematics is not to produce mathematics papers. It's to produce some kind of understanding." "Maybe some of that… Show more