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>> I'm Terence Tao. I'm director of special

projects here at IPAM, the Institute for

Pure and Applied Mathematics. AI has

really been um improving very rapidly.

It has allowed me to experiment. I will

try crazier things. You can vibe on the

blackboard and then if there's a

computation that neither of us wants to

do, we can just get our AI tool to

finish that.

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>> I can search literature much more

accurately and effectively than I could

before. So, I'm doing way more

AI-assisted mathematics and and

collaborative projects. And now I think

it's ready for prime time.

>> Fundamentally, at Open AI, we care about

being at the frontier in terms of

automating science, the economy, and

ourselves. We care less about winning a

Nobel Prize or a Fields Medal, and more

about enabling 100 mathematicians out

there to do that for themselves.

>> We lived in a world of cognitive

friction until very recently, where

every task required us to use our brain.

[music] And so, we didn't really think

about it. We just thought this was the

cost of doing something intellectual.

But now we have AI and the other

technologies that can bring these

frictions down to zero.

I hope when AI usage becomes more

commonplace, people will also post not

just the final product, but all the

different paths that they used to get

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useful information.

I think we can find some way to have the

best of both worlds.