By Keith Devlin @[email protected], @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social

There’s been so much publicized about the recent deluge of mathematics advances made by AI

(the bulk of it being on Youtube, as far as I can tell), that I felt there would be little point

commenting here.

But two Youtube posts in particular struck me as worth noting. The first, a major advance in the

search for a proof of the Riemann Hypothesis, was obtained by a mathematical outsider. That

itself is startling, but what is even more surprising, to me mind, is the way he interacted with

the AI. He literally took on the role of a PhD adviser

The second video I’ll recommend is from physicist Scott Aaronson, director of the Quantum

Information Center at UT Austin.

It’s quite long, but his comments related directly to mathematics are in the first section.…