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Robert Wright and Cornell mathematician Steven Strogatz—co-author of the new book Big Math: The Hidden Codes That Run Our World—discuss how AI is upending math and whether human insight is becoming obsolete—and how the roots of big math go back much further than the advent of the large language model.
0:00 Teaser
0:37 Steve’s new book, Big Math: The Hidden Codes that Run Our World
4:04 What is “big math”? And why do we need it?
11:46 The key to the neural network’s power
18:33 AI’s black box problem
23:52 Is human insight going extinct?
32:34 How math has continually changed humanity
43:07 Insight via 100 ants
51:17 The intersecting origins of network theory and a jazz legend
57:34 Heading to Overtime
