from Richard Hamming’s 1995 lecture “Experts”, on how senior mathematicians at Bell Labs resisted the arrival of computers. “They saw, every one of them, the computer as being inferior… and… possibly in direct competition with them” https://x.com/Hesamation/status/20985037…

Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_Sep 11

Twenty-five Fields Medal winners have published a joint declaration warning about what they see as a severe misalignment between AI companies and the mathematics community.