As a student, I am actively making decisions which will shape my career for the next forty or so years. At a minimum a discussion like this should acknowledge the possibility that the current rate of AI progress continues apace. I understand the desire to be encouraging, but the best preparation for students involves the consideration of possibilities that current mathematicians negligently paper over.
Of course it will get better at exposition than humans. And it will prompt itself in due time.
Do you know where “the ball” is going? Do these math students? Do the professors? It’s easy to say a vague nothing platitude like “target where the ball is going to” but such empty vague platitudes do not help anyone and just waste time.
Manual labor and trades is likely to be one of the last things to go, so the whole "dropout of school and go into trades" crowd may have been more correct than ever, though their original reasoning was not.
Whoops, people stopped caring about your sport!
> Just about anyone who has played a sport has heard that they have to target where the ball is moving to, not where the ball is right now. In this regard I am consistently disappointed with the commentary that mathematicians have been producing lately.
Reading this it feels like you haven't played a sport.
I expect it will remain true into the future (10+ years). I have moderately high confidence (75% or higher) in this prediction.
I use frontier AI models in my work all the time. I think they accelerate my work by helping me understand faster and prompt better.
The models are most useful and most productivity-enhancing in the hands of experts and in the area of their expertise.
I don’t expect a jobs apocalypse, not even in math.
fragmede•20m ago