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A Misalignment of AI in Mathematics: Kevin Buzzard Responds
- techblueberry 14d agoI think I theorize like - a big assumption is AI either leads to fast take off or it moderately helps us but hits a ceiling. I wonder if a third option is - AI actually slows down progress because - a thing I observe at work is the hard problems - making hard decisions, influencing and generating consensus. Innovating new ideas. These problems are still hard. And AI lets you quickly sort of implement a tool or add a feature or do things that are incrementally useful, but lower the cost of doing those things in a way that make solving the hard problems disproportionately _more_ expensive. So scale that up to society. In this example, what if AI solves a whole bunch of mathematics at this side of the frontier, but destroys the community and institutions that enable pushing the frontier. What if it automates AI research in a way that accelerates the asymptote?