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Why do we need human mathematicians anymore?

293 points · 384 comments · auggierose

  1. bananaflag · · focus · HN ↗
    > Similar logic applies to every industry and every job. And it comes to the conclusion that we won’t have enough people for all the jobs that need to be done.

    In the (extremely) short run, yes. In the long run, those jobs will also be done by AI.

    It's like chimpanzees seeing human society and saying "look how complex it is, imagine how many chimpanzees it needs to maintain it".

    1. vrganj · · focus · HN ↗
      But we're not building an AI society - to what end?

      We're building tools to serve the human society.

      1. dgellow · · focus · HN ↗
        A few people with way to much power are building AI to achieve their utopian, sci-fi dream. A few other powerful people are using that first group to achieve their post-democratic goals. It’s the most obvious top down attempt at imposing their vision onto the rest of the world. They aren’t building tools to serve anyone else than themselves
        1. aeve890 · · focus · HN ↗
          >A few people with way to much power are building AI to achieve their utopian, sci-fi dream.

          You mean dystopian. If it were a utopia everyone would be happy to welcome the new world order.

          1. derpyzza · · focus · HN ↗
            utopian for them, dystopian for us
          2. dgellow · · focus · HN ↗
            No, I mean utopia. For them. A dystopia is what we will all experience, when the utopia they are pitching fails to materialize. I’m using the traditional, correct definition of the term, where a dystopia is a utopia that failed to achieve a paradise for the people and instead becomes hell
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