Two presentations held in the Main Hall during Researchers’ Night are now available, along with Hungarian Public Radio's report on the event.
From State-Security Agent Files to Million-Dollar Mathematical Problems was the title of this year’s Researchers’ Night programme at Rényi Institute. The two discussions focused on artificial intelligence as well as its impact on mathematics, historical research and archival work.
At the discussion entitled “State-Security Agent Files, Algorithms, Memories”, visitors were given an insight into the collaboration between Rényi Institute and the Historical Archives of the Hungarian State Security Services (ÁBTL). As part of this collaboration, the Rényi Institute is helping the Archives with the processing and cleaning of documents, making them searchable, and developing other services for visitors and researchers.
The roundtable discussion explored various aspects of researching the state-security agent files, with contributions from Gergő Bendegúz Cseh, Director General of the ÁBTL; Eszter Tóth, Deputy Director General of the Archives; Dezső Miklós, Deputy Director General of the Rényi Institute; AI engineer Gábor Kovács; and Sándor Horváth, Head of Department at the ELTE Institute of History.
The presentation by Gábor Kovács, a researcher in the Rényi AI group, is available HERE, the interview package broadcast on Hungarian National Public Radio’s morning programme can be heard HERE (The package starts at 1:35:54, after the then 7:30 newsreel)
The second discussion focused on the seven legendary Millennium Prize Problems in mathematics, each carrying a prize of one million dollars, as well as on the relationship between artificial intelligence and mathematics. (We have previously covered the problems announced by the Clay Mathematics Institute (CMI) in 2000 HERE and HERE.)
András Stipsicz, Director General of Rényi Institute, and researcher Tamás Titkos discussed whether results produced by artificial intelligence can be regarded as genuine mathematical discoveries, and what role humans will have in future scientific research. The speakers not only explored the capabilities of AI, but also the role that artificial intelligence — and potentially so-called AI agents — may play in mathematical research in the future, as well as the limits of such a role, both now and in the years to come.
Mathematics, as a scientific discipline, provided much of the foundation for the development and use of artificial intelligence. At the same time, it is itself among the fields that will inevitably be transformed by the “AI revolution”, a process that could have a profound impact on mathematical research as well.
András Stipsicz’s presentation on the Clay Mathematics Institute’s Millennium Prize Problems can be viewed HERE.
