What branch of math did you study (assuming you got a graduate degree)? I was more so in CS so had a heavy discrete math background. I particularly love graph theory. I think with applied math in CS you’re often asked to do something new-ish with designing algorithms. That said I also didn’t discover anything.

Same to mathematics then again the relationship most people have with math is a far cry from the hopefully ingenious, and creative labor of what mathematicians do. Most just remember suffering to learn rules discovered by others and themselves never getting the chance to do the discovering.

I’m just going to take a moment to appreciate that they considered software development an art. It’s a rare moment.

I highly suggest listening to the dollop episode on this guy. Here is part one

To temporarily drop into a philosophical debate, all humans are doing is seemingly action potentials in neurons which form models and do predictions not too dissimilar but a lot better and of course self aware (I’m assuming other people are self aware)

That said I’m surprised current models are even as good as they are, most people take the progress since 2017 for granted, then again the AI hype train has over promised like mad and when the thing works it can be flipping amazing, it’s just not consistently that good and failures are unpredictable. I honestly didn’t think we would be here until 2050 to 2080.

Alright philosophy aside, humans are easier to reason with so far, particularly when questioning.

My experience thus far is not all sessions even with the same AI are equal. There’s still that issue of erroneous errors and of course differing levels of quality of output each and every time it’s asked to do something. Like sometimes it’s bang on amazing and other times it’s straight up gaslighting you over statements that are blatantly false.

Yeah he’s had a very neutral take on it. Like it’s a thing and it does good work some of the time but ultimately code not written by a person is harder to maintain. At least when a person writes code they typically have a strong understanding of what they wrote and can accurately communicate that to others.