points by pluc 2 days ago | 0 comments
> Academics are paid tiny sums at post doc and professor levels. Oai comes along paying millions to these people and giving them the tools and support to actually solve problems.
I mean if I was one of them I'd be super pissed that a piece of silicon got more funding than I did and of course it's gonna have better results. I can't steal my peers' research but AI can.
[–] bko 2 days ago
[–] pluc 2 days ago
The problem is where this is going. We've gone from thousands of researchers to one company. I don't care how much better the results are, it is a terrible idea to centralize knowledge evolution.
[–] bko 2 days ago
So you believe math is a jobs program. We do more work, don't need as many mathematicians, although there doesn't necessarily mean fewer as they're now a lot more productive.
Knowledge and discovery isn't the point, it's that this particular group of people are in sole control of the pace and what gets discovered
What's your mental model here?
Again, oai is giving mathematicians millions, they're hiring them to work on purely academic problems. Funding has increased considerably.
What is the problem?