The speaker wonders whether recent rapid progress in mathematics is structurally similar to the direct uplift expected from AI progress.

“instrumental goal towards the broader sense of like just achieve the result just solve this like well-scoped problem of improve the sample efficiency of our models like improve the free training loss so the kind of progress that we're just seeing arrive like an avalanche in mathematics is structurally actually very similar to again i'm curious if this is the case i'm just total outsider i'm wondering if it's the case that it's like structurally very similar to the direct”