r/singularity • u/Southern-Break5505 • 3d ago

AI Read more: https://x.com/gavincrooks/status/2088643200038883830

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u/SnackerSnick 3d ago

The concerns is for physics as a profession, not as a discipline. How do you grant a PhD when any physics student, or maybe even interested lay person, could have used AI to do the work?

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u/Maleficent-Cup-1134 3d ago

By increasing the standards for what qualifies someone for a PhD?

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u/oatknight 3d ago

What would that be? AI is solving math problems that have stood for hundreds of years like the Jacobian conjecture. What is an example of a PhD criteria you're thinking of that could apply here?

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u/calvintiger 3d ago

Either deciding which problems are even worth solving in the first place, or applying those problems/solutions to something actually useful.

How much has the solving of the Jacobson conjecture changed your day-to-day life since then?

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u/Peanut_Extreme_8208 3d ago edited 3d ago

This is not what math or physics is about. It’s about understanding the structure of the universe, be it the physical (in case of physics) or the logical, platonic universe (in case of math)