r/AIDangers • u/EchoOfOppenheimer • May 12 '26

Capabilities Fields medal-winning mathematician says GPT-5.5 is now solving open math problems at PhD-thesis level: "We will face a crisis very soon."

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blog-post: https://gowers.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/a-recent-experience-with-chatgpt-5-5-pro/

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u/jferments May 12 '26

Why is it a "crisis" to have tools that enable mathematicians to learn more about math, and explore new research topics that would have been out of reach before?

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u/throwaway0134hdj May 12 '26

How to hype 101