I wonder how long researchers in mathematics will be needed at all. Unlike athletes or board game players, whose competitions have entertainment value despite not standing a chance against machines, the work of these researchers is of interest only for themselves. Therefore, if they no longer will be able to significantly contribute to the results by AI (which will also be capable of choosing the most interesting problems to work on), they may need to look for other jobs.
We may indeed. But mathematics will hardly be the only sector to be hit by labor disruption. In the just slightly longer run, it seems to me quite possible that humans will become obsolete across the full range of labor sectors.
I find it difficult to make predicitions about the effect of AI on the labour market. Maybe because I do not understand either how generative AI or the labour market actually works.
From my viewpoint, AI currently seems more like a complement than a substitute for many occupations. And even though the technology seems promising in turning into a good substitute, I am still waiting for my self drivning car which always seems to be just a few years into the future.
I guess it is not easy to make very precise predictions, but I believe that AI will be (in fact, already is) better at solving well-defined problems than average employees. There may still be some time while humans are needed to identify and understand requests regarding what needs to be done and present the results, but I don't expect this period to last longer than 10-20 years.
Self-driving cars are already available in several parts of the US and China. The technology is there and is on average safer than an average driver. As for software engineering, one very clearly feels how the field is changing year by year, and learning programming languages feels quite unnecessary now. I am reasonably sure that AI will completely transform the job market for office jobs.
And even for arts - who would have thought 15-20 years ago that AI would ever be capable of writing books, poems, creating music and videos that reach an average level of a human artwork? It is amazing where we are today, and I am sure there is much more to come. It might be fantastic, disastrous or both, but I am convinced that AI will change the world (substantially more than it already has changed it).
I wonder how long researchers in mathematics will be needed at all. Unlike athletes or board game players, whose competitions have entertainment value despite not standing a chance against machines, the work of these researchers is of interest only for themselves. Therefore, if they no longer will be able to significantly contribute to the results by AI (which will also be capable of choosing the most interesting problems to work on), they may need to look for other jobs.
We may indeed. But mathematics will hardly be the only sector to be hit by labor disruption. In the just slightly longer run, it seems to me quite possible that humans will become obsolete across the full range of labor sectors.
I find it difficult to make predicitions about the effect of AI on the labour market. Maybe because I do not understand either how generative AI or the labour market actually works.
From my viewpoint, AI currently seems more like a complement than a substitute for many occupations. And even though the technology seems promising in turning into a good substitute, I am still waiting for my self drivning car which always seems to be just a few years into the future.
I guess it is not easy to make very precise predictions, but I believe that AI will be (in fact, already is) better at solving well-defined problems than average employees. There may still be some time while humans are needed to identify and understand requests regarding what needs to be done and present the results, but I don't expect this period to last longer than 10-20 years.
Self-driving cars are already available in several parts of the US and China. The technology is there and is on average safer than an average driver. As for software engineering, one very clearly feels how the field is changing year by year, and learning programming languages feels quite unnecessary now. I am reasonably sure that AI will completely transform the job market for office jobs.
And even for arts - who would have thought 15-20 years ago that AI would ever be capable of writing books, poems, creating music and videos that reach an average level of a human artwork? It is amazing where we are today, and I am sure there is much more to come. It might be fantastic, disastrous or both, but I am convinced that AI will change the world (substantially more than it already has changed it).