alt Hacker NewsTerence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]
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> Before injecting this cocktail into your bloodstream, would you want to know that there is at least one human cancer expert who understands the mechanism behind this cure?
No. I'm gonna die, my man.
This guy might have the highest IQ on the planet, but it's clear he hasn't spent much time around average people.
This argument is so silly against reality, and already, almost nobody understands the things they put in their body to any significant degree, beyond the effect produced.
Will I take a cancer cure that no human understands? Yes. And so will billions of others. Just needs to cure cancer, that's nearly the only requirement.
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Has the world gone mad? In which universe would you get a mathematical model to produce a tonic of random chemicals that optimize said mathematical model, put that through stage 3 testing, and only THEN ask if you want to inject this into yourself. My Guy, you just did clinical testing on fucking humans for phase 3, it's a little late to consider the moral ramifications of the analysis-experiment dichotomy.
The real example is that you ask ChatGPT for a novel cancer cure, and it spit out some random chemicals, probably including bleach. Do you inject that into cancer patients that have no other hope? No, you don't. You absolute charlatan.
Man with a cozy and soon to be irrelevant sinecure grasping at straws.
It turns out research math was puzzling solving and we rewarded idiot savants.
This seems like cope to me.
Humans have a bias towards assuming that problems have solutions. Mathematicians probably more than average.
This talk is predicated on the theory that the problem of "maintaining the relevance of humans in mathematics" is tractable. Not sure I agree
"our work has brought about enormous advancements to the field of mathematics and we don't like it"
it's pretty ironic that AI being just a group of mathematical techniques after all is making mathematicians uncomfortable because it works. Instead of reacting like this, mathematicians should be excited to figure out how to use the new tools available and push the frontier of what's possible in service of science.
Terrence is asking the stupidest question he could ask: how can math better serve me? They completely forgot the point of science is serving humanity.