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Do you have a real argument to make rather than just appealing to authority?
So let me get this straight: you're saying that Terrence Tao, one of the most prominent mathematicians alive today, doesn't know math history? And me pointing this out is merely an appeal to authority? Get outta here.
Article arguing math is the next "human calculator".
If theft becomes more profitable than genuine creation, then nobody will create anything. Then there's nothing to steal, at which point all progress collapses
This series of posts by Terry Tao is a direct response to the Navier-Stokes results (multiple results!) from the last 24 hours. The question is what is left after the levelling of mathematics, in all its senses, occurs? How can you protect a field that's under this much pressure in the next 6 months? > [I]t is now the identification of a promising problem which is the scarce and precious resource. We have now seen th…
If math is solved then move to an area that’s not. Why do fields need “protecting” from ai?
This series of posts by Terry Tao is a direct response to the Navier-Stokes results (multiple results!) from the last 24 hours. The question is what is left after the levelling of mathematics, in all its senses, occurs? How can you protect a field that's under this much pressure in the next 6 months? > [I]t is now the identification of a promising problem which is the scarce and precious resource. We have now seen th…
This series of posts by Terry Tao is a direct response to the Navier-Stokes results (multiple results!) from the last 24 hours. The question is what is left after the levelling of mathematics, in all its senses, occurs? How can you protect a field that's under this much pressure in the next 6 months? > [I]t is now the identification of a promising problem which is the scarce and precious resource. We have now seen th…
If math is solved then move to an area that’s not. Why do fields need “protecting” from ai?
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If math is solved then move to an area that’s not. Why do fields need “protecting” from ai?
Have you read his tweets?
And to reply to the sibling since I hit my comment limit and I'm going to probably forget about this conversation until tomorrow:
But our situation before 2023 was one in which we had an endless abundance of solutions and ideas. I understand that AI can generate bad ideas faster than we can discern them, but we already have tried and true mechanisms to filter good ideas from bad (e.g. the scientific process), why can't they be adapted?
If proofs are tropes, explanations are stories. There won't be an end to stories.
> In short, the indiscriminate use of powerful solution-extraction tools can achieve the immediate short-term goal of solving problems at hand, but at the cost of sustaining the ecosystem for the next wave of progress, or in understanding the progress already obtained.