Mathematics is an effective training environment for AI because solutions provide a clear reward signal indicating whether a problem was solved correctly.

“If AI can do that, perhaps it can do almost anything. Also, math is a very effective training environment for AI because you get a clear reward signal at the end.”

“Has it done the problem correctly or not? That enables reinforcement learning, where you can have, uh, an AI system solve a problem, receive signal, did it do it correctly or not, do that very quickly, iterate a lot, get a lot better.”