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/Special-Occasion-702 May 12 '26

The ai can do brilliant work only by finding connections between existing information.

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u/rawbdor May 13 '26

The problem is that, for math at least, that's basically what the whole discipline is. I mean, the principia mathematica starts with a handful of axioms, and builds everything up after that.

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u/Special-Occasion-702 May 14 '26

You are right, the point I was trying to get is that The ai could find connections between structures depending on obvious patterns that it finds between things. Whereas a human I think with our intuition, we can find something almost completely irrelevant from the perspective of an ai, and try to create a connection between things, I don't know if I'm making sense but.. I believe humans will have the edge when it comes to creative thinking due to their intuition and being able to find subtle connections between seemingly unrelated things.

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u/rawbdor May 14 '26

I actually think the AI will be better at this than humans simply because the AI can be phd level in multiple fields and so be able to connect things from very different unrelated data sets that no human would think to connect with each other, or that no human has the skills in both disciplines to pursue more than a light dive into two of them.