What Did AI Do to Math in One Month?

Eric Schmidt says mathematicians face Armageddon: everything in their world was overthrown in one month. The world of mathematics had not changed in 50 years since Gödel's hypothesis. Mathematicians have an existential crisis, and the crisis is going to occur because of the frontier models. Everything worries him. One model of what will happen is frontier models dominating achievements in math and chemistry.

Using a cheaper Chinese model is likely to be legal in the U.S. American CEOs are patriotic to a point and very focused on money. Welcome to capitalism. People use small servers with open source weights to solve problems because the token cost is lower. Token costs run about three to five times cheaper if you run your own. Open-weight models are not as functional. Financial accounting does not need that kind of math. It is not that complicated. Many people will use the cheaper open-weight models for little things.

Whether the choice is a good idea depends on the view of Chinese threats and espionage threats.