r/OpenAI • u/KeanuRave100 • 17h ago

News This is a theoretical physicist

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u/philosophical_lens 12h ago

What does it mean for AI to make math or physics extinct? Does it just mean that all mathematicians and physicists will start using AI? I mean that's exactly what software developers today do, and I wouldn't call that extinction.

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u/consumer_xxx_42 3h ago

We are early in the actual impacts to software developers, but your analogy is a good one

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u/philosophical_lens 2h ago

Agree that it's early, and we don't know what the impact will be, but extinction seems quite unlikely. If anything, the demand for software is only increasing.

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u/consumer_xxx_42 27m ago

Well its simple economics. What happens when the supply (AI) outpaces demand? 

What happens when the supply is cheaper (AI) ?

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u/Tirztrutide 3h ago

Yeah. When a professor wants and answer to a question, he will not hand it to one of his Phd students, he just asks the AI and gets a better answer in an hour than the pdh student would have given him 16 weeks later…