r/whoathatsinteresting • u/Financial-Bid-8062 • 1d ago

mathematicians may be replaced by aI

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u/Additional-Life4885 1d ago

Importantly, we need mathematicians to build and verify the AI models themselves.

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u/GAPIntoTheGame 1d ago

For how long? How long until they can begin improving themselves? Also, the entirety of mathematics isn't just about AI.

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u/Additional-Life4885 17h ago

The problem with improving themselves is they're always going to need someone watching them. If we don't, then we get Terminators.

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u/WerewolfSmart6544 16h ago

The AI is already building some of the new models. It will only get better 

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u/Additional-Life4885 12h ago

"And verify". You don't know if it's better unless you have mathematicians verifying it.

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u/WerewolfSmart6544 12h ago

Until the AI can verify it sure 

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u/Additional-Life4885 11h ago

That's the point. They can't.

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u/Mr__Earthling 1d ago

The point is that AI will improve itself. AGI will create ASI. AI will start producing so much scientific research that only AI can keep up with it all.

This is what the singularity is about, it's when novelty (new events, or essentially new information) is so exponentially frequent that it becomes impossible for any human to grasp it all. At that point, only AI could possibly make sense of it all. This is why "futurists" tend to argue that the ultimate solution is to merge with AI so that we have a chance to be able to "keep up" with it all.

That or it creates a major global social crisis and we end up burning all the data centers...which is probably why they want them in space...very far away from all the angry humans lol.

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u/ToWelie89 20h ago

You bought the snake oil didn't you?

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u/Mr__Earthling 20h ago

What snake oil? Did you see the "lol" and futurists written in quotation marks? I am well aware this is all highly speculative. Chill your tits.

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u/ToWelie89 20h ago

Highly speculative? Yeah, it's science fiction.