AI 颠覆数学家职业：从纸笔慢思考到 LLM 快速迭代验证

AI disrupts the job of a mathematician.

From a paper-and-pencil slow thinking to fast LLM-based iterations and verifications.

It's like a professional Go player becoming a pro CS:GO player. There’s still Go in its name, but a totally different game valuing different skills.

That's why you see mixed reactions. We might need more mathematicians now than before, but at the same time this won't be the same kind of the job as before.

And many mathematicians that became mathematicians to think deeply and long about hard problems, won't be interested in continuing if the job turns into verification of AI outputs or simple prompting.

That's why it's depressing from a simply human perspective of a particular job. Something is ending.

From a perspective of science or mathematics (not mathematicians), this is the best time ever. AI will lead us to the new age of mathematical discoveries and boost science progress 100x. Just don't forget about the human aspect along the way and why we want to have scientific progress in the first place.