Comment by NoahZuniga
4 days ago
Terrence Tao can't decide to keep the money and pay himself more or something though. He _has_ to spend it
4 days ago
Terrence Tao can't decide to keep the money and pay himself more or something though. He _has_ to spend it
He doesn’t have to spend it on PhD students.
He's collaborating with AI now, not so much with people. At least, that's the impression I'm getting from his recent writing.
In his recent interviews, he says he has very little time to do math these days outside of research meetings with his PhD students and postdocs.
Isn't that "doing math" in the same way that every other experienced professional "does <x>"?
Wasn't it Tao who suggested, fairly early on, that the best way for a researcher to contribute to mathematics may be to drop everything else he or she is working on and study AI instead?
Pretty sure it was Tao but I could be wrong. In any case it now seems more defensible than it did when the idea was first broached.