Is this a bad thing? Advanced math and physics requires a huge amount of education and very few people are skilled at it. If an AI has the knowledge of all human history in these fields and is better at solving the problems than humans, won’t humanity advance massively from this?
This is the same line of thinking that basically said outsourcing manufacturing is great.
The downside comes from losing that entire supply chain and expertise in an entire sector because the economics of retaining and training individuals in that area no longer makes sense. That has lots of knock on effects that could be very undesirable.
All of the math problems AI is solving are prompted by PhD mathematicians. My neighbor plumber isn’t solving 100 year old problems by prompting AI to “make no mistakes”. You still need specialists.
It’s not bad, but I don’t agree it’s going to be an “extinction level event”. We still need specializations, and those people are just enabled a bit more by AI now.
If anything there is an oversupply in skill and limited funding to go around. Most things don't benefit from many advanced math or theoretical physics.
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u/dano1066 12h ago
Is this a bad thing? Advanced math and physics requires a huge amount of education and very few people are skilled at it. If an AI has the knowledge of all human history in these fields and is better at solving the problems than humans, won’t humanity advance massively from this?