In recent weeks, we’ve seen footage of mathematicians crying because AI has triggered an existential and spiritual crisis for their profession.
AI has made the race to publish mathematical breakthroughs pointless, according to the Australian professor at the centre of an international controversy this week.
Mathematics professor Francesco Maggi, when discussing the “remarkable ability” that large language models (LLM) have to generate mathematical proofs, says the technology poses a challenge to something deeply human.
So what are we doing?
Do policymakers appreciate that people are extremely concerned about a technology that has a powerful ability to devalue human creative expression?
We’re living in a world of major system collapse, and policymakers are forcing technology into our homes (and data centres into our neighbourhoods) that will undermine the very things that bring meaning to our lives, and that would otherwise help us to cope with a collapsing world.
Yeah I work in computational maths and it seems like everyone at the moment is either having a bit of a crisis/thinking of becoming a farmer or they’ve gone completely mental and all in with AI.
In a non-capitalist system things might not be as bad, but all our PhD and postdocs are screwed basically, it was already extremely hard to get a job.
I reckon such fine minds could contribute greatly to any field including ways of creating a better society without enslavement to AI tyrants
Yeah but the permanent staff don’t give a shit about making a better world. They’re just enjoying playing with their new toys.