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There's yet another major issue of the centralization of power and knowledge: > Some worry about the accessibility of AI tools. Traditionally, mathematicians h
by mmooss 4mo ago
There's yet another major issue of the centralization of power and knowledge:
> Some worry about the accessibility of AI tools. Traditionally, mathematicians have required little more than intuition, training, and a pen and paper to advance their field. If this slow, deliberative process is no longer valued by society, and particularly by research funders, then mathematics could become an elitist activity, only practiced by select organizations that can afford to work with proprietary AI models.
This can be true of anything LLMs do better than existing options. Because the best LLMs require enormous resources to develop, access to them can be very limited. Right now they are priced for market share. What happens when your small law firm attorney, or self-representation, goes up against a large firm with LLM expertise? Can the kid from the poor high school compete with the kid from the rich school with premium LLM access, in mathematics for example?
- nok22kon 4mo agoalways has been the poor kid always had disadvantages, had to help the family, while the rich kid could focus on the math, and maybe get into a good math place with family help
- mmooss 4mo agoWhat's always been true is change. We decide our future. Sickness has always been there, but that doesn't mean we can't have a enormous influence on our fates. So much that has been true for millenia we've changed in the last century or three.