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Comment by Retr0id

7 hours ago

Even if you somehow have a 100% correct AI, it's not useful unless we can understand and internalise (and communicate) its results.

Who is this "we" you speak of? The professional mathematician community? Were pre-AI results useful outside of this community of people who could understand them?

  • Yes. Most probably do not understand the notation involved in, and the statement of, the Lindeberg-Levy Central Limit Theorem. But every scientist uses this theorem in one way or another. These ideas have a way of trickling down because to people who work thanklessly to do so.

  • Something about this sentence makes me think about that Rob Auton bit, that before there were mobile phones, nobody had any reason to tell someone else that they were on a bus.

    • Before mobile phones you never called someone and asked "where are you" because a phone was tied to a location...