What Terence Tao thinks about AI agents

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1. 20 Mar 2026

   Our readingToday's AI tools either solve a problem or fail at it, and are really bad at partial progress or at identifying which intermediate step to attack first.

   Their wordsum you know, these tools they either succeed or they fail um and they they've been really bad at creating sort of partial progress or identifying intermediate um um stages that you should you should focus on first.

   ↗Terence Tao – How the world’s top mathematician uses AIyoutube.com 6th of 24 in this recording

3. 20 Mar 2026

   Our readingFully autonomous one-shot attempts are the wrong approach to the great unsolved problems; the mileage is in humans and tools working against each other.

   Their wordsI I I I do feel that, you know, fully autonomous one-shot approaches are not the right approach for these problems. I mean, I I think you you'll get a lot more mileage out of the interplay between between humans collaborating with these tools.

   ↗Terence Tao – How the world’s top mathematician uses AIyoutube.com 18th of 24 in this recording