Terence Tao’s ChatGPT Research Buddy

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Terence Tao showed how he used ChatGPT like a research buddy — back-and-forth on a MathOverflow counterexample, hours saved, even a few math slips caught.
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October 2, 2025

Terence Tao. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

Terence Tao showed how he used ChatGPT like a research buddy: instead of brute-forcing code, he had a back-and-forth to nail down parameters for a counterexample on MathOverflow. It saved him hours and even caught a few math slips along the way. You should look at the chat he had w/ ChatGPT — pretty cool!

https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/115306424727150237

Originally posted on LinkedIn.