Some Notes on AI

This posting is mainly intended to provide some links to material about AI in math and physics that I’ve found interesting. I confess that to a large degree I’m trying to avoid seriously learning about exactly what is going on, so my own opinions and thoughts about this topic aren’t grounded in any expertise. If you have interesting things about this topic to point to in the comments, please do so, but for general discussion, try some other venue managed by someone better informed. A Future of Mathematics event just started a few minutes ago at Stanford. You’ll find a link to the livestream there and talks should be on Youtube. You can easily find people announcing that AI is about to make mathematicians obsolete. We’ll see. In the meantime what I’ve found interesting is that AI is motivating deeper thinking about what what it is that mathematicians really do, and how to protect the valuable parts of this. For good examples of this, see the substacks of Michael Harris and David…