What do AI math and anesthesia have in common...? #AI #OpenAI #math #TerenceTao #science

OpenAI released solutions to hundreds of open math problems, and it’s caused a real stir in the math community. Terence Tao, one of the world’s best mathematicians, just gave a lecture reflecting on it, and one of the big worries is that these results are a black box: they work, but we don’t understand how. That got me thinking about medicine, which is already full of black boxes. We don’t fully understand how anesthesia works, or how it switches off consciousness, and we use it every day because we test it. It’s a good reminder to keep some humility outside your own lane, and some humor. I’m