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drivebyhooting • today at 9:09 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Maybe the next frontier for AI is to make it more pedagogical.

If the aim of mathematics is to promote greater human understanding, then surely elevating everyone’s grasp and appreciation of math is of greater import than chasing another theorem feather for our hats - especially if AI can automate the plucking.


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hangsi • today at 9:23 PM

Arguably it is succeeding on this front - LLMs have been much more helpful for learning about mathematics topics than Wikipedia for a while now. Admittedly a somewhat low bar, but they are genuinely helpful. In many other fields the models can still only pull up equal (in my opinion).

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itishappy • today at 9:28 PM

> If the aim of mathematics is to promote greater human understanding...

Is this the aim of mathematics?

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