Masoud Kamgarpour at ABC News (Australia):
Earlier this year, it slowly dawned on me that I could no longer ignore these machines. After much hesitation about contributing to companies with unethical practices, I took the plunge and paid for a $30 subscription. What I discovered was the most profound shock of my intellectual life.
In May, I felt like I was working with a great PhD student, by June it was an equal colleague, by July it was better than me, and by August I had the eerie feeling that it had surpassed even the best mathematicians. Then, in September, came a startling announcement: OpenAI claimed a solution to the Navier-Stokes problem, a Millennium Prize Problem concerning the motion of fluids. To add insult to injury, OpenAI recently released solutions to a further 372 mathematical problems, including central questions that large groups of mathematicians had struggled with for decades.
It is one thing to hear about AI disrupting other fields. It is quite another to find yourself at the centre of the storm, watching a worldview built over decades of study and grounded in millennia of accumulated knowledge begin to collapse.
AI capabilities are not hype.
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