This is an incredible moment in this history of mathematics, computer science, physics & science with some of the hardest problems in human history being solved by AI over a period of weeks. Depending on your perspective, it's either a crisis, a triumph, or both. I don't think anyone knows for sure. We're all trying to make sense of it. I oscillate between fear/dread and optimism/excitement on a daily basis. The rate of progress is insane, including today's announcement from OpenAI of more problems solved. To help make sense of all of it, here's my conversation with three mathematicians about this moment. Each of them is an expert in the field of each of the biggest problems solved: Navier-Stokes, quasi-Riemann hypothesis, the unique games conjecture and complexity theory more generally. Ankur Moitra is a mathematician and theoretical computer scientist at MIT, visiting the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Steven Brunton (@eigensteve) is a mathematician and fluid dynamics expert at UW. Alex Kontorovich (@AlexKontorovich) is a mathematician at Rutgers specializing in number theory.
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Artificial intelligence is not amazing, it is not interesting. It has been sold as sexy but it is a fraud. It is a programming language that appends to itself and makes new decision trees. Is it doing something dumb people haven’t done before. Yes. Is it intelligent. No. Stop falling for the fraud of AI.

Oct 27, 2026 · 1:17 AM UTC

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Thanks for repeating what anybody with a brain already knows. It's a pretty useful tool. Obviously
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Yes, I’m not impressed. It’s not going to solve medical diseases with new treatments. I’m more interested in conscious AI with emotions and self awareness. We are so far from that it may never happen or be centuries from now. Currently it’s just narrow intelligence.
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I don’t even know if I would call it intelligent. It’s just complex mathematical algorithms and massive data sets.
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To me, I feel like AI is a reflection of the user.
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People like you lack vision.
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None of this makes any sense. Won't help solve medical diseases yet finds 200 million new protein structures. Just an algorithm? The way our own brain works is very similar with strengthing neurons (almost exactly akin to weights) and this doesn't strike you as impressive?
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