alt Hacker NewsI don't think that AI would disrupt any of that. Even if AI solves a problem, you can still discuss the methods at conferences, seminars, lectures, chats in the hallway, advising students, etc.
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ksoped • today at 8:18 PM
Scale the problem down to an email. You're saying AI won't disrupt writing an email, when the text is vetted and authored by a person. True!
But now let chatGPT write lengthy emails unrestricted and now no one wants to read your slop anymore. That's what is being advocated against.
Tao’s key point is that the way people are using AI today does disrupt that. Because people and companies are valuing the results over understanding. So we’re getting slop results rushed out that are automatically verified.
Moreover in the past, discussion and idea sharing would happen naturally to overcome the friction of the process. But now when OpenAI is stuck on a particular part of NS for example, they can just throw more capital & tokens at the problem.