@jackemled I’m not sure how he’s“relying everything on ChatGPT”, I understand your environmental and data concerns, and I do agree with your assessment that yes, LLMs are notoriously limited in what they can do (every AI researcher worth their salt agrees with this).

But this is just him mentioning that he used it to help solve one problem, he isn’t blindly glorifying the technology and think it’s a god or whatever. I find his tone to be more skeptical of the technology in general, actually.

Your reasoning isn’t sound, and I’ll leave it at that.

@tao @jackemled Okay, I don’t know how to put this, but the person you’re replying to literally has a Fields Medal. I’m sure that your concern is an issue with some folks (e.g. grade school students), but I wouldn’t worry about Terrence Tao unlearning and unteaching himself to think about problems.

He’s a pure mathematician, the problems themselves are his interest.