The Cultural Divide between Mathematics and AI
The excitement around AI's potential contributions to mathematics doesn't always come with a nuanced understanding of what mathematics truly is and isn't. This post attempts to articulate these differences and hopefully build a bridge for better collaboration. Most mathematicians are not interested in AI creating new mathematics, but in processing and organizing existing knowledge. Even if AI was able to produce a proof of a major conjecture, it would fail to deliver the deeper understanding that mathematicians truly seek.