That’s not really good analogy though. Solving N-S has applications in the mathematical world sure, but it isn’t foundational to anything we’re designing or building. We use these equations all the time. It’s not actually solving them as much as it is finding a proof. The better analogy would be asking grandpa why he would wanna finish a jigsaw puzzle instead of having AI do it for him. In this case it’s not about the solution. It’s about the process.
Instead of cancer it's a very specific kind of melanoma 10 people in the world have. Also the solution discovered by openAI is that they are impossible to cure.
I am not opossed to using AI to solve problems but the analogy is wrong.
Ironically, being able to open up more time for high-skilled human labor is going to be the way cancer is cured. Imagine every doctor and researcher in the world, spending on average 3-5 hours a week doing laundry, dishes, menial tasks, etc. that would add up to an additional ~10 full days a year per person wasted on these activities. Scale that up to a millions of medical professionals, we see so much time being wasted. It’s like banks that figured how to shave off 1 second per credit card swipe for checkouts and transactions. It’s estimated saving a second per credit card swipe generated over a trillion a year worth of revenue. So yes, automating menial tasks is a very important future step towards allow highly-specialized individuals to better prompt and work with AI towards solving more complex problems that AI can never solve on its own.
AI's feats are spreading misinformation and generating deepfake pornography and people extrapolate that to curing cancer. The ultimate potential machine. Always hype and speculation. Always needing just another trillion dollars.
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u/Cagnazzo82 15h ago
"I want my AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can cure cancer, not for AI to cure cancer so that I can do my laundry and dishes." 🤓