This series of posts by Terry Tao is a direct response to the Navier-Stokes results (multiple results!) from the last 24 hours. The question is what is left after the levelling of mathematics, in all its senses, occurs? How can you protect a field that's under this much pressure in the next 6 months?
> [I]t is now the identification of a promising problem which is the scarce and precious resource. We have now seen that even the rumor of someone working on a problem can trigger a massive amount of AI-powered effort to flatten it before the original research project has time to reach its full potential.
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> How can you protect a field that's under this much pressure in the next 6 months?
Sounds like they're going the way of the DoDo. better take that PhD, migrate to the new world and become a tuktuk driver.
If math is solved then move to an area that’s not. Why do fields need “protecting” from ai?