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How does AI's mathematical abilities affect the commercial future of software like Mathematica?
by glimshe 2mo ago
How does AI's mathematical abilities affect the commercial future of software like Mathematica?
- mlh496 2mo agoI think Mathematica will survive because the alternative is for AIs to write the code to do a computation or use an open-source library. And there are many calculations for which there simply isn't an open-source tool for evaluating. But I wouldn't be surprised to see Mathematica being used primarily as an AI plugin in the coming years. Mathematica now has an MCP which I use regularly from Claude Code. It's nice not having to write the lengthy Mathematica expressions by hand.
- anon48293 2mo agoIt will (hopefully) move towards things like Lean