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NEW - Is AI Making Us Worse at Math?
Math skills are quietly changing now that AI can prove research-level problems that professional mathematicians spent decades trying to solve on their own. Trefor Bazett looks at what's gained, and what quietly gets lost, when a calculation that used to take a notepad and a beer takes seconds instead.
The conversation gets concrete fast, using a real fireplace renovation to ask whether outsourcing the math also outsources the thinking behind it. It is the kind of everyday problem, figuring out how many bricks and how big a mortar joint, that used to force you to reason it out, and now does…
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