Better approach: "holy sh*t, I can solve way harder math problems now". I bet openai would have loved to have Terry on their team leading the 'solve math' department.
It's telling that isn't his response.
It's telling that isn't his response.
Aand it's gone.
"Oh wow, that opened the door to a whole new area of..."
Aand it's gone.
I'm not sure this article is a good way to figure out his stance on the issue, I'd recommend reading his blog posts or mastodon threads.
"the way OpenAI is doing it" - unfortunately while mathematicians have had an internal culture of not stepping on each other's toes, their ingroup is still susceptible to the same disruption as every other field as AI shows up to eat their lunch.
You can either get with the program and discover this is the greatest opportunity in the history of mankind to accelerate knowledge, or, you can cry over your lost prestige. Terry has chosen the latter.