As someone who has a 18 yo son who wants to study math, this has me (and him)
... worried ... about becoming obsolete?
But I'm wondering what other people think of this analogy.
I used to be a bench scientist (molecular genetics).
There were world class researchers who were more creative than I was. I even had a Nobel Laureate once tell me that my research was simply "dotting 'i's and crossing 't's".
Nevertheless, I still moved the field forward in my own small ways. I still did respectable work.
So, will these LLMs make us completely obsolete? Or will there still be room for those of us who can dot the "i"?--if only for the fact that LLMs don't have infinite time/resources to solve "everything."
I don't know. Maybe I'm whistling past the graveyard.
But I'm wondering what other people think of this analogy.
I used to be a bench scientist (molecular genetics).
There were world class researchers who were more creative than I was. I even had a Nobel Laureate once tell me that my research was simply "dotting 'i's and crossing 't's".
Nevertheless, I still moved the field forward in my own small ways. I still did respectable work.
So, will these LLMs make us completely obsolete? Or will there still be room for those of us who can dot the "i"?--if only for the fact that LLMs don't have infinite time/resources to solve "everything."
I don't know. Maybe I'm whistling past the graveyard.