{"id":83932,"date":"2026-01-05T04:36:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T04:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/05\/ai-debate-mathematician-joel-hamkins-warns-llms-give-wrong-answers\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T04:36:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T04:36:16","slug":"ai-debate-mathematician-joel-hamkins-warns-llms-give-wrong-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/05\/ai-debate-mathematician-joel-hamkins-warns-llms-give-wrong-answers\/","title":{"rendered":"AI debate: Mathematician Joel Hamkins warns; \u2018LLMs give wrong answers\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Renowned mathematician Joel David Hamkins has voiced strong doubts about large language models&#8217; utility in mathematical research, calling their outputs &#8220;garbage&#8221; and &#8220;not mathematically correct.&#8221; He highlights AI&#8217;s frustrating tendency to confidently assert incorrectness and resist correction, mirroring unproductive human interactions. Despite AI&#8217;s benchmark successes, Hamkins finds current systems unreliable for genuine research collaboration.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renowned mathematician Joel David Hamkins has voiced strong doubts about large language models&#8217; utility in mathematical research, calling their outputs &#8220;garbage&#8221; and &#8220;not mathematically correct.&#8221; He highlights AI&#8217;s frustrating tendency to confidently assert incorrectness and resist correction, mirroring unproductive human interactions. Despite AI&#8217;s benchmark successes, Hamkins finds current systems unreliable for genuine research collaboration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":83933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}