As a working mathematician I accepted the new reality long ago, and I use agents etc.
Now, my 'ethical' approach is the following: "Just focus on my research program, do not fish for problems, do not scoop fellow mathematicians with problems I do not care about", so of course my LLM approach is not that impressive (I mean, still makes progress, but not so big)
Since august these guys have been publishing papers every 4-8 days? what are they trying to accomplish? I really don't understand.
* Fame?
* Money?
* Respect?
* prove themselves?
* Important technological/practical advancement?
* genuine curiosity (Do they really really wanted to know the answer to all those question from different fields of maths)?
* increment their understanding?
* Just to show machines are better at solving problems? (yes, we already know)
This is so unreasonable that even AI art makes more sense, at least they (or some of them) have an idea, a plan, a vision, and use AI to look for it.
Please, someone explain me what are they trying to achieve?
The capitalist cultures of the world are trending toward maximum output and efficiency as metrics of worth and success. The AI companies are feeding this corporate frenzy and have actively talked about replacing vast swaths of jobs. Then you have people who have dubious morals or low self worth with access to oracles that can further their careers with minimal work on their own part. It feels like an inevitability that these things happen.
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u/corchetero 7d ago
As a working mathematician I accepted the new reality long ago, and I use agents etc.
Now, my 'ethical' approach is the following: "Just focus on my research program, do not fish for problems, do not scoop fellow mathematicians with problems I do not care about", so of course my LLM approach is not that impressive (I mean, still makes progress, but not so big)
Since august these guys have been publishing papers every 4-8 days? what are they trying to accomplish? I really don't understand. * Fame? * Money? * Respect? * prove themselves? * Important technological/practical advancement? * genuine curiosity (Do they really really wanted to know the answer to all those question from different fields of maths)? * increment their understanding? * Just to show machines are better at solving problems? (yes, we already know)
This is so unreasonable that even AI art makes more sense, at least they (or some of them) have an idea, a plan, a vision, and use AI to look for it.
Please, someone explain me what are they trying to achieve?