A Fields Medalist can change his mind in 90 days.
In June, Cédric Villani said large language models understand nothing.
On September 19 he called OpenAI’s Navier–Stokes work a cataclysm and said mathematics now has the atmosphere of an end of history.
That is not embarrassment.
That is what happens when the evidence arrives all at once.
Cédric Villani après l'annonce de la solution d'OpenAI au problème du millénaire : « J’ai été secoué. Une ambiance de fin de l’histoire. C’est un cataclysme comme jamais les maths n’en ont connu. »