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injidup • today at 6:01 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

I suspect the whole field of mathematics will simply disappear as a career path. It seems obvious that the trajectory is for the machines to be able to provide proof on demand for any solvable problem. Whether or not the proof is understandable by humans is perhaps irrelevant in the larger sense. Doing hard math will simply become another black box tool in the larger AI toolkit for goal optimisation. Is this sad and should we try to prevent it? Is it any less sad than the venerable London cabbie who spent a life time memorising every street to gain "the knowledge" and almost overnight supplanted by machine intelligence.


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JumpCrisscross • today at 6:18 AM

> the whole field of mathematics will simply disappear as a career path

Almost certainly not. It's just going to jump to a higher level of abstraction.

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croes • today at 6:04 AM

Did the London cabbies explore unknown territories to find new streets to memorize ?