Comment by 2596-ANXC
3 hours ago
AI hasn't done that much compared to humans in research yet. Let us not overestimate its impact.
What it has done in software engineering is kill all human open source spirit. There is hardly any new software out there, people do not talk about interesting things but just how AI "generates value" or similar nonsense. AI has stolen at least three potentially productive years.
The Leiden declaration is fine, but if people who make OpenAI ads like Tao sign it what do we make of it? Professors who are truly concerned should ban AI in universities, talk about IP theft to politicians and so on.
Found a new organization "Mathematicians against AI".
> What it has done in software engineering is kill all human open source spirit.
Seems the opposite to me. All my stalled open source projects got unstalled and I've shipped several others. Other friends report the same.