Sergei Gukov, Caltech

Title: The role of AI in mathematical (re)search

Abstract: At its core, scientific research is a search, a search for new ideas, new patterns, and new ways to explain or prove things. In this talk, I invite you to explore how AI is reshaping different stages of this process. We will see that while AI excels at many tasks, it still hesitates on others, such as long-horizon reasoning or far-out-of-distribution generalization. I view this as good news: it highlights how much meaningful AI research remains to be done. In fact, the goal of expanding AI’s role in mathematical research has become a motivation for advancing AI itself. I am genuinely excited that these two fields have come into such close contact over the past few years.