alt Hacker NewsMoving forward, I can't imagine other mathematicians wanting to have this kind of experience. So there has to be a shift away from these services.
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Personally this is a watershed moment for researchers and grad students I know. All of them are close sourcing WIP repos, not putting their progress in LLMs, or have lab level initiatives to self host models.
If you mean move to products with ZDR policies, OK, very fair and I agree. If you're talking the equivalent of carpenters should give up pneumatic air guns because hammers are more authentic, then that's silly. These are tools, and like any tool how effective they are can come down to how well you use them.
… which would only exacerbate the computational disparity they're operating under.
Like SaaS companies who don’t feed all their stuff to Anthropic, OpenAI and Cursor?
Universities should soon start having own-hosted AI based off open models
A better alternative is just to make all your work open and public, then everyone can see what you should get credit for.
I'm a mathematician. I have a lot of trepidation about these tools and what they mean for the future of the profession.
That said... most of us are not working on problems as famous as Navier-Stokes. Even if OpenAI could scoop me based on my back-and-forth with ChatGPT, which I presume they could if they threw $15 million worth of compute at it, I highly doubt they'd bother.