Samuel Hammond 🦉(@hamandcheese):My partner is a theoretical computer scientist (essentially a mathematician). She has mixed feelings about AI's impact on math research overall, but her feeling about today's release is one of overwhelming awe and excitement. Literal tears of joy. Quote: "so lucky to be alive rn"

2026.10.07 01:06

My partner is a theoretical computer scientist (essentially a mathematician). She has mixed feelings about AI's impact on math research overall, but her feeling about today's release is one of overwhelming awe and excitement. Literal tears of joy. Quote: "so lucky to be alive rn"

Dan McAteer@daniel_mac8

2026.10.06 22:51

OpenAI is downplaying this for PR reasons. If you’re a mathematician, you must feel like a nuclear bomb hit, and you’re at ground zero. Reasoning models are two years-old. In that time they went from incapable of basic arithmetic to solving problems humans couldn’t solve for decades. Math is only the beginning. AI will revolutionize the entirety of the human scientific endeavor. Most of us don’t appreciate what that means. What a time to be alive!