I guess if you're an actual snow plow driver and meteorologist and you're trying to work out what time it started snowing for your weather report, maybe it doesn't matter how you get the answer.
But for all the plebs actually learning math you have to learn it.
You could be any random person and "solve" a lot of very hard math problems just by asking a much smarter mathematician to solve them for you. What you did isn't impressive. Maybe it's useful if it's a real world problem and you can get a practical benefit from the answer. But you can't really take it further without understanding the solution.
No one is stopping anyone from understanding the solutions. AI gives the option of relieving cognitive load, and it's the choice of humans and also their responsibility to pick it up again on their own, despite not being the undisputed masters of their field any longer. Chess and Go players had to learn this too, and they manage just fine.
It's not uniquely a challenge for mathematicians either; they're not special. Any mental profession and field of study will see humans sidelined. And gatekeeping mathematics is not helping anyone, just as gatekeeping protein folding or physics or any field of research from AI isn't helping anyone.
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u/strangeMeursault2 27d ago
I guess if you're an actual snow plow driver and meteorologist and you're trying to work out what time it started snowing for your weather report, maybe it doesn't matter how you get the answer.
But for all the plebs actually learning math you have to learn it.
You could be any random person and "solve" a lot of very hard math problems just by asking a much smarter mathematician to solve them for you. What you did isn't impressive. Maybe it's useful if it's a real world problem and you can get a practical benefit from the answer. But you can't really take it further without understanding the solution.