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2026-06-27 16:24 UTC

Woman: "AI cannot save you from upper division math classes. It just stops working." A bizarre chorus of men online: "BUT BUT BUT" "NUH HUH THERE'S AN ADVANCED MATH BENCHMARK" (okay?) "YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND LLMs" (I do, try me) "IT SOLVED THE ERDOS PROBLEMS" (I know what you are referring to and you have basically demonstrated that you never heard of what problem was solved before the AI solution, but that aside…) "I HAVE A (non-math) DEGREE AND IT DID GREAT" (yes yes, your cive classes stopped mathematics about three classes before math became interesting, let me talk about how CivE seniors and juniors looked at my Advanced Engineering Math class compared with the two math majors in the room who took it on a lark to pad out the semester) "BUT THIS PERSON FOUND IT USEFUL!" (Yes, it can be useful, it can help, but it doesn't save you) "IT CAN DO INTEGRALS JUST FINE" (…okay?) "HAVE YOU HEARD OF WOLFRAM ALPHA" (probably before you were born kid) "CLAUDE DOES GREAT" (it does not, I assure you) I'm so tired.

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  • @AeonCypher@lgbtqia.space 2026-06-28 20:23

    @hrefna@hachyderm.io I'm writing a paper on AI and computability and AI can't really understand it as it keeps trying to break it down into other arguments it's seen before.

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  • @hrefna@hachyderm.io Co-signed: A woman with a math PhD who works in an AI adjacent field as a software engineer. I know how that shit works and it does none of what they claim.

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