Christian Szegedy on AI math breakthroughs and the backlash

On October 3, Christian Szegedy wrote about AI progress in mathematics, comparing it to the Wright brothers' first flight. Until this year, he says, AI was like a plane that could fly only a few hundred meters at a few meters of altitude, expensive and useful in only a few narrow settings. In recent months, he writes, AI has been able to "fly into the Darién Gap without crashing," and has even solved a few conjectures no one had solved before. He also uses the image of airlines planting flags on the big rock a mathematician is about to summit to describe the explorer resentment these advances provoke. On October 5, coverage of the piece reached the Hacker News front page.

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