The good news for math prodigies, adds Tao, is that AI and mathematicians will more likely always be collaborators, where instead of replace math nerds, AI will enable them to explore large-scale, previously unreachable problems. Says Tao of the future, “You might have a project and ask, ‘What if I try this approach?’ And instead of spending hours and hours actually trying to make it work, you guide a GPT to do it for you.”