alt Hacker News> but you need to move on
If AI can actually replicate mathematicians, sure. We don’t have evidence it can. We have evidence it can do useful stuff once promoted by human mathematicians. But if all the Terence Taos “move on,” we won’t have those in America anymore.
(The irony of ironies would be the mathematicians prematurely moving on causing American AI progress to stall in the future.)
I have no doubt it can’t actually replicate the type of thinking that makes great mathematicians great. That’s why I said the field has changed, not that it’s not a thing anymore. They will be doing different things and what we consider mathematical research will look different.