Similar logic applies to every industry and every job. And it comes to the conclusion that we won’t have enough people for all the jobs that need to be done.
In the (extremely) short run, yes. In the long run, those jobs will also be done by AI.
It's like chimpanzees seeing human society and saying "look how complex it is, imagine how many chimpanzees it needs to maintain it".
In the (extremely) short run, yes. In the long run, those jobs will also be done by AI.
Let's be honest: we don't know. Maybe you're right, but for the moment it's more likely that you're not. And countries cannot bet on that vague intuition at the cost of destroying their research communities and world leadership (which takes decades if not a century to achieve).
In the (extremely) short run, yes. In the long run, those jobs will also be done by AI.
It's like chimpanzees seeing human society and saying "look how complex it is, imagine how many chimpanzees it needs to maintain it".
Let's be honest: we don't know. Maybe you're right, but for the moment it's more likely that you're not. And countries cannot bet on that vague intuition at the cost of destroying their research communities and world leadership (which takes decades if not a century to achieve).
I don't think research communities should be destroyed.
Best case, they still matter.
Worst case, AI kills us all and it's irrelevant that we "wasted" money on research.
But we're not building an AI society - to what end?
We're building tools to serve the human society.
Here is a link to the original article:
https://poshenloh.com/posts/20260919-math-ai
The original posted link from OP is from Terry Tao’s website where the article was posted as a guest blog post.
waiting for the xkcd for that
I always think of this one but I bet there's better
* https://m.xkcd.com/435/
TLDR: we don't. Terry Tao just announced he's becoming a UFC heavyweight fighter.