Terence Tao says mathematicians hide research ideas out of fear of AI
Rohan Paul, relaying Tao's remarks, says mathematicians are now beginning to hide their research problems. Tao said that in the past mathematicians would share promising research directions very openly, but now they worry that others will input their research ideas into frontier models and publish before they can finish their own work. The full video was posted on SAIR's YouTube channel.
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Tao relays a new change in the mathematics community, from which readers can see the practical impact of frontier models on academic sharing habits.
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Mathematicians are now hiding their research ideas out of fear of AI 😀
~ Terence Tao
"now, mathematicians are hiding their problems. they used to share very openly all their promising research directions and now they're afraid that if you do that, someone with an AI will input their research ideas into a frontier model and rush out some people before they can finish their work."
---- Full video on "SAIR" YouTube channel, (link in comment)