| ▲ | thurn 6 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Is the risk here like "people will fund math research less because of AI"? I agree that would be bad, and we should try and stop it (along with e.g. funding for the humanities, which is in a much worse place than math!), but I'm not sure OpenAI are the right people to be mad at. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | svnt 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
But they are the ones releasing an unverifiable (no model release) and massive and unchecked body of mathematics into the public while making exaggerated claims about its capabilities to replace human work. And they are the ones doing it in advance of a fractional sale of the company to the public. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | viccis 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Based on what I've heard from my math friends in academia, every talented undergrad who was set on going to grad school for math has switched to something like consulting internships or fintech, even if they were really passionate about math, because they don't want to spend another 7 years or so just to wind up jobless. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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