Why are we even doing all this?
A theoretical physicist critiques the impact of AI on academic research, specifically questioning the value of AI-generated mathematical and scientific outputs. The author expresses skepticism toward corporate-driven AI tools that promise to automate complex intellectual fields.
Why it matters
It reflects growing anxiety within the scientific community regarding the role of generative AI in replacing human intellectual labor.
[This is a guest post by Rikab Gambhir . This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.]
First, they came for the artists, and I did not speak out, because I was not an artist. Then, they came for the mathematicians, and I did not speak out, because I was not a mathematician. Then, they came for the physicists, and it was actually really cool and they gave me free tokens and promised to solve my entire field for me and now I can finally devote myself to the important work of publishing papers instead of doing physics
In early October, OpenAI fulfilled every mathematician’s childhood dream.
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