Undergraduate students have mostly already given up on learning. Graduate students (sometimes) still see the value in learning how to do things that ChatGPT can easily do. What will happen when it becomes clear that any research contribution that they can hope to make as a junior researcher can also easily be done by AI? There has been a lot of great discussion about where the real value of mathematics lies, how humans can best contribute in the future, and how the role of professionally trained mathematicians will have to evolve. However, unless the academic community can very quickly figure out how to offer young scientists a viable career path amid such rapid and far-reaching disruption, the human mathematical community will be on the path towards extinction. I am sure there are many people who think there is nothing wrong with that, but every other community that is based on human creativity will face similar existential threats. I am not excited about living in such a world.
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If you’re in your ~60s, you probably remember a song called, “In the year 2525”. It is not the details of progression, based on fact or fiction, that are interesting. It is the thought that such a rate of change was measured in thousands of years, not decades. No thought to exponential change.
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