https://freerepublic.com/tag/aiscaremongering/ en-us Sat, 12 Sep 2026 18:54:21 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4395267/posts You don’t need to know any math to understand why the Millennium Prize breakthrough matters. It’s proof of AI’s accelerating and terrifying progress. Why should we care that AI is suddenly insanely good at math? It’s a question that I’ve been asking mathematicians and AI researchers for months, and especially this week, when OpenAI published a solution to one of the notoriously complex Millennium Prize Problems. And it’s the one math question I can answer without breaking into a cold sweat. Math is many things to many people: beautiful, elegant, nightmare fuel. Over the past year, it has also become... The Wall Street Journal https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4395267/posts#comment Sat, 12 Sep 2026 18:54:21 GMT