By Ozgur Yilmaz
Publication Date: 2025-12-23 14:06:00
Artificial intelligence is everywhere. In fact, each reader of this article could have multiple AI apps running on the device viewing this article. The image at the top of this article is also generated by AI.
Yet many mechanisms that govern AI behavior remain poorly understood, even by top AI experts. This leads to an AI race that is based on costly scaling, both environmentally and financially, and is also dangerously unreliable.
Progress therefore depends not on the escalation of this race, but on understanding the principles underlying AI. Mathematics is at the heart of AI and investing in these mathematical foundations is the critical key to becoming a true global AI leader.
How AI shapes everyday life
AI has quickly become part of everyday life, not just in the form of talking home devices and entertaining social media generation, but also in ways so seamless that many people don’t even notice its presence.
It delivers the recommendations we see when surfing the Internet and…
