Mathematicians issue warning as AI rapidly gains ground
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#4As a mathematician by trade I think they’re overblowing it. You can choose to use it or not. I choose not to because I enjoy the process. But I’m not doing formal research or getting paid to do it these days.
I will note that the average corporate mathematical modelling is usually a fucking circus so adding AI might make it better.
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#5> However, the declaration argues math is more than a machine for producing correct answers.
There might be more to maths than that, but that is definitely the most important part. I love science funding. But not because it's a jobs program for nerds.
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#6I'm curious about whether we will start discovering new maths in the next few years that provide insight into unsolved CS or Physics problems!
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#7> However, the declaration argues math is more than a machine for producing correct answers. There might be more to maths than that, but that is definitely the most important part. I love science funding. But not because it's a jobs program for nerds.
well put.
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#8My vague prediction right now is that in five years LLMs will be heavily used by universities in grant-funded math research but nobody else will be able to afford it, much like supercomputer clusters 25 years ago.
Re: Mathematicians issue warning as AI rapidly gains ground
#9As a mathematician by trade I think they’re overblowing it. You can choose to use it or not. I choose not to because I enjoy the process. But I’m not doing formal research or getting paid to do it these days. I will note that the average corporate mathematical modelling is usually a fucking circus so adding AI might make it better.
> You can choose to use it or not
This is becoming less and less true unless you're specifically talking about usage of it outside of a work environment. Many work places are requiring people to use it and/or tracking usage. I don't know about in academic settings, but I'd imagine it's becoming heavily used there too?
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#10> However, the declaration argues math is more than a machine for producing correct answers. There might be more to maths than that, but that is definitely the most important part. I love science funding. But not because it's a jobs program for nerds.
No, it's not the most important part. It can be argued that most important part is asking the right questions