AI has deeply influenced the fields such as graphic design, movie making and computer programming. However, AI has potential to influence the hard sciences too.
David Silver, DeepMind researcher, has interestingly predicted the role of AI in the future of mathematics. AI can solve math puzzles.
The Clay Mathematics Institute in 2000 offered a million-dollar prize for seven different mathematical problems. The time frame was a quarter of a century. However, just one mathematician accepted the challenge. Perhaps, the prize could go to AI.
AI has scored impressively at Math Olympiad. Initially, AI was not good at math. Previous LLMs struggled with basic arithmetic and could not count the r’s in strawberry. Even today LLMs struggle to multiply large numbers. LLMs do not have a mathematical model. They go through previous mathematical operations in their training data.
LLMs, however, are improving in math. GPT O3-has scored well on the AIME — a feeder exam to Olympiad. AI could soon win a medal at Olympiad.
AI, according to Silver, DeepMind, will revolutionize math. It can percolate down the downstream fields such as physics. Math is considered the purest science. The ripple effect could facilitate all scientific progress in near future.
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