Comment by voidfunc

1 day ago

Because it means mathematical discovery can largely be automated away from academics. This is the beginning.

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electroweak  18 hours ago

Humans propose; AI will dispose.

It's not clear from this progress that AI can formulate conjectures despite this new ability to solve them. So mathematicians still look like they have a job. Though instead of spotting far-off landmarks it's sounds more like they'll be chasing waves on a beach.

bamboozled  1 day ago

The beginning of what?

  • voidfunc  1 day ago

    The beginning of the end of human thinking being valuable enough to justify university's existences among many others.

    Were in an unprecedented time where the value of knowledge is about to be crushed.

    • voidhorse  20 hours ago

      Maybe for STEM. The humanities seems kind of safe to me since there's an element of it which cannot be divorced from human opinion and interpretation. It's not like STEM where the people pursuing the ends are largely fungible and the ends are objective (Heisenberg already believed scientific discoveries were inevitable and it didn't really matter who pursued them, someone would eventually find them)

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    • rfgplk  14 hours ago

      Nope, it's about to be turboboosted if anything. I myself have already formulated countless proofs (AI assisted naturally) in the last few months, despite: a) not having access to any academic resources b) not being involved in any academic circles. This research is now being employed in my startup, delivering ground shattering results. I actually ran analysis a few weeks ago seeing how much real world capital I would have needed to cough up to fund my efforts so far and it's literally in the _billions_. With less than a $100k in tokens I have been able to effectively generate the value of Apple or Microsoft in the early 2000s. This is only the beginning. Wait until you start seeing single person NVIDIA startups popping up.

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    • bamboozled  1 day ago

      Not sure I agree with this take, but we're going to find out either way.

      Have you ever heard of an S curve? Things will develop rapidly, then equalize. If they don't, we're at the singularity and I guess the end of time as we know it.

      But I guess really bad things happen, cancer, radiation poisoning, torture, people have died in really horrendous ways, and I guess dying from some horrendous AI side effects is possible too. Yay.