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AI models are not very good at identifying which mathematical directions or branches are worth exploring or developing.
Unresolved speaker · Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement · 17 Sep 2026
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“they're clearly exceptional in some ways but they are weaker than human mathematicians in in other ways so we have this like jagged scenario where the models are like brilliant in some dimensions and also weaker than humans in other dimensions and yeah like you said they're not very good at posing new problems they're not really good at understanding like what is really worth what what directions what whole branches of mathematics are worth exploring or developing and my opinion is that i think this is great like”26:10Report a misattribution
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