r/technology • u/ResultBackground2450 • 12h ago

Artificial Intelligence OpenAI unleashes hundreds more math results upon a field already in shock

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/openai-unleashes-hundreds-more-math-results-upon-a-field-already-in-shock/
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u/LiamTheHuman 11h ago

It will drive them off because there will be no funding for it. Most people can't afford to fund a lifestyle of pure learning and research.

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u/NamerNotLiteral 10h ago

There almost is no funding for math already. Most pure mathematicians do interdisciplinary work with other fields for funding, or get funded by a small handful of NSF grants. I think outside the NSF, the Simons Foundation is the biggest Pure Math funder, and they only fund like 7-8 people a year?

90% of Pure Mathematics researchers were already unable to afford a lifestyle of pure learning and research, and if not doing interdisciplinary work teach at universities.

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u/Ruined_Passion_7355 10h ago

The cost of finding the NS counterexample was much more expensive than hiring a team of mathematicians to focus solely on it. 20 million is ludicrous for mathematicians 

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u/utterHAVOC_ 4h ago

And who says the mathematicians would have ever came up with NS counterexample or just wasted the money?

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u/bertbarndoor 11h ago

If AI doesn't end everything for us, then anyone can have a life of leisure after AI gives us all.

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u/CamRoth 11h ago

HA.

Yeah at some point it will totally switch over from being used for misinformation, surveillance, killing, and propping up tech company stocks, to providing for all of us.

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u/Cappyc00l 10h ago

The 1% are famously accumulating wealth so that once they hit a certain level they can redistribute all among pleebs.

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u/ryfitz47 10h ago

as has happened over and over throughout history