Terence Tao says the AI race on primes contaminated the problem.
Three AI labs announced better bounds on gaps between primes within two days. A single Oxford mathematician had improved the same 12-year-old record by hand three days earlier. Terence Tao says the pile-up buries the ideas and asks labs to compete on insight.
Why it mattersBenchmarks decide what AI labs work on, and open mathematics is now a benchmark. A field can lose its next ideas while its scoreboard keeps looking better.
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