Comment by bamboozled
4 days ago
For me the most obvious conclusion is, use your maths skills and get into open source AI.
Make AI as cheap and accessible to as many people as possible and we will likely be much better off.
The more people empowered by the tech the less like you will be “redundant” in the way you describe. You will own the important tools only the techno oligarchy own today…
Would you feel the same if you were a part owner of OpenAI? I bet you’d feel excited about the money you’re about to make ?
isn't math skills really just pattern analysis and creativity? how is this limited to just the math domain? why are mathematicians worried?
I don't really know but I can see two obvious outcomes.
1. Sam Altman et al owns all money, or power and all labor.
2. AI becomes cheap and ubiquitous, everyone "owns it" and we can see the contents of the sausage and modify it as required.
Mathematicians are uniquely placed to help avoid 1 because AI is based on math & algorithms.
> Mathematicians are uniquely placed to help avoid 1 because AI is based on math & algorithms.
It's based on centuries old applied math.