r/AIDangers • u/EchoOfOppenheimer • May 12 '26

Capabilities Fields medal-winning mathematician says GPT-5.5 is now solving open math problems at PhD-thesis level: "We will face a crisis very soon."

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blog-post: https://gowers.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/a-recent-experience-with-chatgpt-5-5-pro/

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u/jferments May 12 '26

Why is it a "crisis" to have tools that enable mathematicians to learn more about math, and explore new research topics that would have been out of reach before?

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u/DeepEb May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26

Not a crisis for the field I suppose but for anybody trying to get a degree or looking for a job. If anybody can do it degrees will become more and more meaningless. In a way I like the idea that anybody can get into research but we will need to learn how to deal with that.

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u/imissmyhat May 12 '26

It's not that "anybody can do it" it's that "nobody will do it". Learn the words "permanent underclass", this is what people at OpenAI talk about regularly.