Samir Patel
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Samir Patel
@pateljournalist.bsky.social
Editor in Chief, Quanta Magazine
Math is a profoundly human process — one as engaged in beauty and elegance as it is in proving a theorem or finding an answer. The looming power of AI has the humans of math rethinking what it means to be a mathematician. See our latest special issue.

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Mathematical Beauty, Truth and Proof in the Age of AI | Quanta Magazine
Mathematicians have started to prepare for a profound shift in what it means to do mathematics.
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May 9, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If there was a field that was standing in the middle of the road when ChatGPT rolled into town, it was natural language processing. For Quanta’s new special issue, John Pavlus assembled a riveting oral history of how the field managed this bolt from the blue.

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When ChatGPT Broke an Entire Field: An Oral History | Quanta Magazine
Researchers in “natural language processing” tried to tame human language. Then came the transformer.
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May 9, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Fundamental science made AI. Explore “INPUT,” the first section of Quanta’s latest special issue.

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AI Changes Science and Math Forever | Quanta Magazine
An exploration of how artificial intelligence is changing what it means to do science and math, and what it means to be a scientist.
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May 9, 2025 at 5:28 PM
THREAD: I've been EIC of Quanta for almost exactly a year, and this is an amazing anniversary present from this remarkable staff.

We had a big, strange story to tell, and we brought a lot of creativity to telling it. I’m so proud of this incredibly talented team and what we’re accomplishing!
Quanta has been recognized with a National Magazine Award for Best Single Topic Issue for “The Unraveling of Space-Time.”
April 11, 2025 at 4:08 PM