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ABSTRACT: Recently, there have been successful attempts to apply machine learning to various objects in pure mathematics. After overviewing these activities, we will focus on the case of elliptic curves, where a new phenomenon, called "murmuration", has been discovered through machine learning techniques. Understanding this new phenomenon has been a challenge to the number theory community, resulting in a hot-topics workshop at ICERM last year and several papers on this subject. The story was also covered by Quanta magazine ( https://www.quantamagazine.org/elliptic-curve-murmurations-found-with-ai-take-flight-20240305/).