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What Terence Tao thinks about peer review

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  1. Our readingAutomatic filters cannot replace community acceptance, and human referees cannot be removed from mathematical publication.

    Their wordsBut passing an automatic filter is not a substitute for community acceptance; I do not believe that human referees can be removed from the publication process.

    ↗Mathematics in the age of AIarxiv.org All 5 from this paper

  2. 5 months earlier

  3. Our readingThe structures of science now have to change, because the scarce thing is no longer proposing theories but verifying and evaluating the thousands anyone can now propose.

    Their wordsSo, we're now in a situation where suddenly people can generate thousands of theories for a given scientific problem. And now we have to to verify them, evaluate them and this is something which we we have to to change our structures of science to actually sort this out.

    ↗Terence Tao – How the world’s top mathematician uses AIyoutube.com 2nd of 24 in this recording