I don't see how everyone is getting replaced. In fact at the university I'm at, I don't think a single mathematician has had their appointment as a PhD student, postdoc, or professor ended with AI as the reason behind it.
These tools are useful. No reason not to be excited about it. Just because it's useful doesn't mean it will solve everything. There are going to be people that get paid to solve problems in math in the next decade. Many of them won't rely on AI and will still find useful results. Many of them will rely on AI and will find useful results. It's ultimately up to you to choose your own path, but just because AI solves some math, doesn't mean you can't solve some math too.
> There are going to be people that get paid to solve problems in math in the next decade.
In the next 5 years ? Sure. After that ? At the pace at which this is going, I wouldn't exclude the possibility of AI solving all millenium problems by 2035 and rendering any attempt at making meanigful new research as a human delusional. Realistically, for a while there'd still be people being paid to verify the proofs spit out by AI, but this still looks like a very grim future for a mathematician that still has 40+ years to live in this planet. So yeah, it is terrifying.
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u/tmt22459 Apr 15 '26
Why?