OpenAI Researcher Jokes About Learning Math
Ethan Mollick shares a math professor's take on AI progress.
Gabriel Petersson, a research engineer at OpenAI, posted that he kind of wants to learn math just so he can cheer with the smart people when OpenAI keeps solving every hard problem. Ethan Mollick highlighted a comment from mathematician littmath, stating he was waiting for the verdict from one of the most level-headed and AI-aware math professors. The posts appear among visible replies on X discussing AI advances.
i kinda want to learn math just so i can cheer with the smart people when openai keep solving every hard problem
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3 postsI was waiting for the verdict from one of the most level-headed and AI-aware math professors.
@LouisLebbos It’s a big deal.
go build some physics engines - will be extremely intuitive to you given your background working on sora, lots of concepts will transfer, and you can actually rely on your coding abilities to take you all the way because of the Curry-Howard corespondence - took a while for me…
openai: MATH me: i wonder how terry tao is feeling about this terry: *rolls around*