mathematics

3 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Mar 28, 2025 by Dan Hendrycks · across every show →

Everything said about mathematics, oldest first

Mar 28, 2025 bullish
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Hendrycks: Mastering Humanity's Last Exam will signal superhuman math capabilities
“When there's very high performance on, on that benchmark that would be suggestive of something that has, say, in the ballpark of superhuman mathematician capabilities. And so I think that would revolutionize the, academy quite substantially. Because all the th…”
Dan Hendrycks Mar 28, 2025 ▶ 21:12 AI's Rising Risks: Hacking, Virology, Loss of Control — With Dan Hendrycks
Jun 18, 2025
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Patel: Training AI on math will not yield diplomatic acumen
“I just don't think you're going to train the AI so much on math that is going to learn how to do Henry Kissinger level diplomacy. I do think skills are somewhat more self-contained.”
Dwarkesh Patel Jun 18, 2025 ▶ 17:07 Dwarkesh Patel: AI Continuous Improvement, Intelligence Explosion, Memory, Frontier Lab Competition
Jun 4, 2026 bullish
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Hinton: AI in closed systems like math can improve without external data
“I believe, for example, in areas like mathematics, because it's a closed system you don't need data. You can just make conjectures and see if you can prove them and keep on like that. In that sense, it's a bit like AlphaGo where you can play against yourself.”
Geoffrey Hinton Jun 4, 2026 ▶ 3:57 AI Pioneer Geoffrey Hinton: AI Is Conscious, Superintelligence is Coming, And We Should Be Worried
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