Noah Smith highlights rapid AI math advances
Noah Smith posted on X that artificial intelligence has advanced in three years from an inability to perform simple arithmetic to a capability that threatens to displace nearly all professional mathematicians. Itai Sher quoted the post and described it as an example of replacing documented current performance with predictions of future outcomes. Daniel Litt reposted the exchange and characterized the original claim as unsubstantiated speculation rather than an account of existing systems.
In three years we went from AI being unable to do simple arithmetic to AI threatening to put almost all professional mathematicians out of a job.
Pretty impressive!
@Noahpinion It’s still unable to do simple arithmetic.
In three years we went from AI being unable to do simple arithmetic to AI threatening to put almost all professional mathematicians out of a job. Pretty impressive!