mathematics
3 statements across 3 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Aug 1, 2024 by Oriol Vinyals · across every show →
Everything said about mathematics, oldest first
Aug 1, 2024 positive
Vinyals: General reward functions in math will advance AI self-improvement
“Depending how you attack the problem, it's definitely not at that end. And I think even because it's so hard to have a perfect reward when you interleave language, I think by, even by accident, the field will move forward as we get to discover these more gener…”
Nov 14, 2024 positive
Hubert: Automated Formal Proof Checkers Enable Mass Crowdsourced Mathematics
“But if you instead relied on a formal system to check everyone else's work, then You could do a little bit like in astronomy where you could have an amateur kind of living in the middle of maybe nowhere and you, you've never met. And then you wouldn't have to …”
Dec 19, 2025 bullish
Gil: Foundation Models Will Achieve Physics and Math Breakthroughs
“I think you know, a third area is the next set of foundation models are going to come, and by that I don't mean the Neolabs and the Next Gen LLM, which of course will happen, but I mean, physics, materials, science progress by models, math progress. And I thin…”