AI without validation is too unreliable to be of use in any serious application.
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Terence Tao
Mathematician; Fields Medallist, 2006
Australia / United States
Science and medicine
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My parents tell me I was fascinated by numbers even at age two, when I tried teaching other kinds to count using number blocks.
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.
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International Mathematical Union, Interview conducted by the International Mathematical Union on the award of the Fields Medal, OUPblog, Oxford University Press, 1 September 2006
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