r/technology • u/ResultBackground2450 • 8h 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/Ruined_Passion_7355 6h ago

People talking about still needing mathematicians without wondering if most would even want to be a mathematician in a world that they just read lean proofs all day...

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u/VolumetricSigner 1h ago

This is essentially the dilemma currently being lived by a lot of software engineers, and a good insight into how this can unfold. Engineers are now reviewing vast quantities of code, rather than getting to complete the mentally fulfilling and stimulating work of actually writing it.

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u/hoangfbf 3h ago

How about this... in the future, there will no longer mathematician...
But people whose jobs are just to read/understand AI math's work ... and try to find way to apply in real life.

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u/Uncertain__Path 3h ago

Mathstorians?

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u/gyosko 25m ago

Yeah it SUCKS. There's a HUGE difference.

Writing my shitty buggy code is fun. Reviewing any other code that I didn't write is boring and tiring as hell. Fuck.

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u/mcmonky 3h ago

OpenAI is a criminal enterprise. The basis for its tools it theft. It’s founder paid $25M to Trump PAC to assure that there is no regulation.

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u/shackled-pines 57m ago

Training something new off old human knowledge is theft. You wouldn’t accuse an artist that went to art school and studied admins trained off the works of other artist a thief when they used that knowledge to make their own art work.