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AI Is Taking Over Physics and Nobody Talks About It

In the past few months alone it turned up a counterexample to a conjecture open since 1939, disproved a thirty-year-old result, and made real progress on the Riemann hypothesis.

AI Is Taking Over Physics and Nobody Talks About It

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In the past few months alone it turned up a counterexample to a conjecture open since 1939, disproved a thirty-year-old result, and made real progress on the Riemann hypothesis.

Young mathematicians are somewhere between depression and anger about it.

Physics is next, and almost nobody is talking about it.

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In the past few months alone it turned up a counterexample to a conjecture open since 1939, disproved a thirty-year-old result, and made real progress on the Riemann hypothesis. Artificial intelligence has eaten mathematics. Young mathematicians are somewhere between depression and anger about it.

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Artificial intelligence has eaten mathematics. Young mathematicians are somewhere between depression and anger about it. Physics is next, and almost nobody is talking about it.

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