I am ABD in mathematics. That was a long time ago. I taught math for many years at a community college. My amateurish but knowledgeable perspective is that these developments shatter the mystique for me.

What AI is showing is that mathematics is mostly just pattern searching and AI can do this far better, faster, and with a much wider base than humans can. When I was working on my thesis problem I realized that I worked much less than my fellow students. I was an average student in my program but even for the best students they had to spend a lot of time thinking about stuff. They put in a lot of effort.

Is the difference between me and Tao mostly effort and that he has a much better memory of mathematical facts than me?