Despite impressive-seeming individual successes, standardized benchmarks consistently show AI having only 1-2% success rates on mathematical problems, and the journal and media attention to successes creates a distorted perception where noise overwhelms signal, making it increasingly important to establish standardized datasets and prevent AI companies from selectively reporting only victories.

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Terence Tao

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It will be increasingly important to collect these really standardized datasets. There are efforts now to create a standard set of challenge problems for AIs to solve, and not just rely on the AI companies to only publish their wins and not disclose their negative results.

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Terence Tao – How the world’s top mathematician uses AIDwarkesh Patel
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:05:48 PM

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