Terence Tao, a mathematics professor at UCLA, is a real-life superintelligence. The “Mozart of Math,” as he is sometimes called, is widely considered the world’s greatest living mathematician. He has ...

AI is now helping produce research-level mathematics, but experts say verifying proofs not generating them is becoming the ...

Artificial intelligence systems may be good at generating text, recognizing images, and even solving basic math problems—but when it comes to advanced mathematical reasoning, they are hitting a wall.

Over the past couple of months, several researchers have begun making the same provocative claim: They used generative-AI tools to solve a previously unanswered math problem. The most extreme promises ...

Terence Tao, a UCLA professor considered to be the “world’s greatest living mathematician,” last month compared ChatGPT’s o1 reasoning model to a “mediocre, but not completely incompetent” graduate ...

Professor Terence Tao during a 2023 interview with Donga Science. Courtesy of Donga Science. Recently, a 23-year-old amateur with no formal mathematical training used artificial intelligence (AI) to ...

The books will invite readers on a tour of transformational ideas that have shaped our modern understanding of the universe. Quanta Books is delighted to announce two new upcoming books by ...

Terence Tao is often called the “Mozart of Math.” A child prodigy born in Australia, Tao, 50, is now at the top of his field at the University of California at Los Angeles, working in the rarefied ...

Three Fields Medalists, researchers from OpenAI and DeepMind and dozens of mathematicians and computer scientists gathered at Stanford last week to envision how artificial intelligence (AI) might ...

On Alumni Day last month, Princeton awarded the James Madison Medal, the highest distinction for graduate alumni, to Terence Tao GS ’96. Tao made University history when he earned his Ph.D. in ...

Terence Tao, one of the world’s foremost mathematicians, who is often called the “Mozart of Math,” would rather not talk politics. Limited time: Save 25% on NBC News subscription Get exclusive ...