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Almost every recent AI breakthrough has been in code and mathematics, the two domains with highly structured languages and huge specialised training sets.

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mathematics Doing mathematics: proof, conjecture, and what mathematicians want that other fields do not.

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  1. Cal Newport

    Computer science professor at Georgetown and author of Deep Work

    But if you zoom out, it becomes clear that almost every “breakthrough” since last summer has concerned the narrow domains of computer code and math, which are defined by highly structured languages and come accompanied by massive amounts of specialized training data.

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