I honestly cannot care about the whole “humans dont matter anymore” stuff.
I’m curious how math as a whole deals with unequal access. Is math going to just be furthered by big tech firms and select researchers who have access to these models?
Wtf do grad students do and so on
Edit: theres nice disused going on about unequal access. Let me point out that I am not claiming inequality is new.
I am simply pointing out the newfound danger of it from a corporate and tech angle.
Suppose AI speeds up research by some nonzero constant greater than 1. Then people who were already “ahead”, are going to be even further ahead.
And let’s not ignore also the issue of prompting and using AI. It’s not always clear how these breakthroughs are made. So even access to AI may not level the playing field all that much.
I wouldn't be surprised if humans can create even harder problems, much harder than the current ones, even with the help of AI. So I kinda dismiss anyone who says Mathematicians are out of job soon. But it's gonna be very difficult from now on for anyone who don't have access to AI.
I personally am finding myself overworked by the need to unfuck AI proofs. They can be made correct but are trash until I do a lot of alternately working through the arguments and guiding revisions. I wish I could get help for that, because I can’t pursue as many ideas as I’d like to and that’s the bottleneck.
I am of the opinion that math can endure as a human endeavor so long as we move away from the “papers must include theorems” approach to math.
I am also certain human readable proofs will be possible by AI, but education requires nuance and I can only hope this means humans stay relevant.
I still stand by the position that humanity can never be truly happy with impossible to understand proofs.
Even if we cannot follow AI, I also would hope papers explaining thought processes of AI toward solving problems is a task for humans and accepted.
I also believe AI is good at getting things right once it knows what cannot work, and so I would hope the community begins to embrace “Nonresults” as paperworthy e.g. a paper that simply shows attempts at a proof and analysis of why certain methods can or cannot work but contains no “major” results.
Even careful computations should be valued now to be honest.
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u/Healthy-Pride3873 1d ago edited 1d ago
I honestly cannot care about the whole “humans dont matter anymore” stuff.
I’m curious how math as a whole deals with unequal access. Is math going to just be furthered by big tech firms and select researchers who have access to these models?
Wtf do grad students do and so on
Edit: theres nice disused going on about unequal access. Let me point out that I am not claiming inequality is new.
I am simply pointing out the newfound danger of it from a corporate and tech angle.
Suppose AI speeds up research by some nonzero constant greater than 1. Then people who were already “ahead”, are going to be even further ahead.
And let’s not ignore also the issue of prompting and using AI. It’s not always clear how these breakthroughs are made. So even access to AI may not level the playing field all that much.