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16 hours ago

https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/117237320796901560

Terence Tao’s “don’t create the open problem strip miner”

That doesn't answer the question. Assume today is not the stopping point, and that we end up with super-intelligent theory building AIs. Better than any current-day human. And better at explaining, creating visualizations, etc. than any current day human.

Why is it a problem that the professor is now a robot, and that humans could spend arbitrarily long learning from it and even after 15 years of masters-style advanced graduate lecture courses still have deeper still levels of the topic that the AI could teach them?

And if they never do reach that level of ultra-competence, well, then we found the niche for humans to continue to exist within.

  • Well the one issue is that this isn’t how students end up learning.

    The base completion rate of MOOCs is single digits %.