Terence Tao: We're in a Copernican Revolution About Intelligence

Season 1 · Episode 6 · 12:00 · 2026-03-20

Fields Medal winner Terence Tao on why idea generation cost is now zero but verification is the bottleneck, how Darwin beat Newton by writing plain English, why correct theories initially look worse than wrong ones, and what hybrid human-AI science looks like within a decade. Source: Dwarkesh Podcast (2026-03-20)