Terence Tao says AI labs’ race to beat math benchmarks is starting to hurt the field. He wants them to compete on new insights instead.
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On Aug. 31, Stadlmann posted a preprint lowering the bound on gaps between primes from 246 to 240. Within days, several AI labs were posting their own improvements on social media. Tao responded with an eight-post thread explaining why he finds this worrying. His point is that the number itself was…
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