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Interview with Terence Tao in Barcelona


The Fields Medal winner is attempting to solve one of the Millennium Problems, with a reward of $1 million, but he also applies his analysis to topical enigmas such as the Venezuelan election and the advance of artificial intelligence

Terence Tao snorts and waves his hands dismissively when he hears that he is the most intelligent human being on the planet, according to a number of online rankings, including a recent one conducted by the BBC. There have been a lot of transformative technologies in the past — the automobile, the airplane, the internet — but what makes AI special is that it affects almost every single thing we do: journalism, mathematics, medicine, or whatever. Massimiliano Minocri Q. Google DeepMind announced a couple of months ago that its artificial intelligence systems AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry had won a silver medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad.

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