alt Hacker NewsThat's going to be a very short term solution, no?
You can't really swear off looking at problems solved by AI, or keep moving away from fields whenever AI starts contributing, and have a viable career.
Today's frontier models, are everybody's local models in the near future.
If this were a change that had expected stalls or reprieves it would be different.
Doing mathematics looks to be the next chess, er, I mean protein folding challenge. The latter's computation demands have dropped significantly.
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kolinko • today at 8:12 AM
You have many fields that will be protected from ai, or even enabled by it - if I could bet, sociology will be a hot new field that will by definition still need humans always, but will gain both speed and significance.
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There are an infinite number of problems that require a unique proof (you can prove this btw). Yes maybe you need to work harder to find a more obscure problem now but why give up the fight already? I believe that students should have the right to intellectually stimulating education. If you really need to use AI, go for something that isn’t trying to put you out of business or destroy your right to a decent education, like a local open weights LLM.