AI without validation is too unreliable to be of use in any serious application.
Recorded Quanta Magazine reporter, Reported interview, Quanta Magazine, 13 April 2026 source
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Terence Tao
Mathematician; Fields Medallist, 2006
Australia / United States · b. 1975
Mathematician at the University of California, Los Angeles, working in harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, combinatorics and analytic number theory. Awarded the Fields Medal in 2006. Since the 2020s he has worked on formal proof verification and machine-assisted mathematics.
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Perhaps one character trait which does help is the ability to focus, and perhaps to be a little stubborn. If I learned something in class that I only partly understood, I wasn't satisfied until I was able to work the whole thing out; it would bother me that the explanation wasn't clicking together like it should. So I'd often spend a lot of time on very simple things until I could understand them backwards and forwards, which really helps when one then moves on to more advanced parts of the subject.
Recorded International Mathematical Union, Interview conducted by the International Mathematical Union on the award of the Fields Medal, OUPblog, Oxford University Press, 1 September 2006 source
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