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What does it mean to be a human researcher in the age of powerful AI?
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What does it mean to be a human researcher in the age of powerful AI?
On the Value of Doing a PhD in the Age of AI
Many students who are just now embarking on a PhD in AI are understandably anxious. It feels like our field is zooming forward ever faster. Our clever methods are often surpassed before they are published. Our deep insights seem less critical to frontier lab progress. AI is automating aspects of the research process that used to require years of specialized training.
Applied Pure Mathematics
Some thoughts about mathematics as a cultural and social technology.
What Next for Academia?
As research agents autonomously synthesize prior work, who gets the credit -- and what keeps talented people in academia when its incentives run on credit?
The Age of Wonders and Terrors
Twenty years ago, when the idea of AI taking over the world in our lifetimes still struck most of us as the unconstrained fantasy of those who knew too much science fiction and too little science, …
How Do We Talk about LLMs?
By Jim Clifford It is never fun to watch friends argue. Generative AI has created multiple fractures across our universities and the community of historians. The stakes are high and we are all deal…
AI as the Catalyst of the New Paradigm of Science? | Cadmus Journal
The rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping the landscape of scientific inquiry. This article examines the challenges confronting modern science, including knowledge fragmentation, diminishing returns of current paradigms, and the disconnect between science and society. It explores how AI offers solutions enhancing collaboration and integrating knowledge—as well as considers the possible “darker side” of using AI in research. However, the advent of AI in science not only enhances scientific research but also redefines the role of human researchers and fosters a new paradigm of human understanding. By embracing these transformations, a more cohesive and responsive scientific enterprise can emerge.
Shut Up and Prove - Hyperproblems
TLDR; We are at an asteroid hitting the earth level of crisis of intellectual life. My first love was the foundations of mathematics. Or maybe the second lo…