MIT Cohorts Score AI for Math Grants, Primed to Turbocharge Mathematical Discoveries with a Touch of Wit!
“MIT affiliates win AI for Math grants to accelerate mathematical discovery”
“Three teams from MIT have been awarded National Science Foundation Convergence Accelerator 2021 cohort grants. Collectively, the teams received just shy of $4 million to further their aims in artificial intelligence for mathematics.” So, apparently, AI has been given another chance to be useful, this time by solving the world’s great math problems. It almost seems as if discovering the uncharted island of math isn’t as enthralling when it’s human-driven. So, bring on the machines!
Our pals at MIT have cleverly hustled just below $4 million from the National Science Foundation Convergence Accelerator 2021 cohort grants. The goal? To blow everyone’s socks off with artificial intelligence’s proficiency in mathematics. Why do the hard number crunching ourselves when we can pass the ball to AI and sit back to relish the chaos and wonder it brings?
Among the MIT wise guys benefiting from these grants, the first team intends to build an AI system that pays heed to mathematicians’ unspoken intuition, nudging it away from the brink of becoming a redundant statistic. The system constructed will understand the process of mathematical proofs, pick up its pace, and perhaps even have a shot at outperforming our finest human mathematicians. Now wouldn’t that be a sight?
Contrarily, the second team has plans to build a “collaborative learning system”. Fancy name for a chatbot for mathematicians, wouldn’t you say? Essentially, an AI enabled bromance between human mathematicians and AI, allowing them to share their victories and frustrations with mathematical problems. Just what every mathematician needed, and never knew they did—an empathetic robot.
Lastly, the third team has ambitions to rule them all. They want to foster creativity in mathematical discovery by employing an AI system to comprehend and interpret mathematicians’ ideas, and possibly even hype them up a bit. Could we be on the cusp of creating an AI Pulitzer Prize-winning mathematician?
Indeed, in the realm of math, the artificial intelligence revolution is just kicking into full gear. Who knows where this wild ride will take us, or how our human mathematicians will fare within this brave new world of AI domination. Here’s a fun thought: let’s award the next Fields Medal to a robot, why don’t we? A new kind of honor for our inanimate friends.
We can’t wait to watch the great duel between silicon brains and organic ones. The arena is set. The time is now. May the odds be ever in our favor!