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Comment by mlthrowaway1953

Is the Fields Medal going to still be relevant in 10 years, when most of the the major mathematical discoveries are made by deep learning and deep reinforcement learning systems? Already systems are learning to reason about concepts [1] and of course there is classical work on proof checkers [2]. It's very likely that the 2028 Fields medal will be awarded to a programmer, not some mathematical super-genius (assuming that the committee is fair, and not biased against machines).

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.01261 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_color_theorem

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