How Fast AI Learned Math

2026-10-12 1:00:26 Guest: Phillip Kerger Watch on YouTube

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A UC Berkeley professor watched AI solve a problem he'd thought about for two years — then close a Millennium Prize problem weeks later. Phillip Kerger, former NASA quantum researcher and optimization complexity theorist, gives the calibrated, no-hype version: what AI genuinely did to mathematics, why "quantum AI is pretty much dead," and what he now tells students when the machine can do the homework.

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