[kevv]

That is correct. But for how long ? How long would it take for AI to learn all of this too ? AI sure does learn faster than humans and even though it will never degrade the relevance of fundamentals, don't you think that the bar for someone beginning to learn about the fundamentals, would just keep increase exponentially.

[Flatterer3544]

AI takes XYZ data to set N range, it never created anything new but took all and created a baseline, which is at many tasks very good.

It cannot really create anything new and never seen, which most people will never do either.

So if we push away even more onto AI, I am afraid MANY(not all) that would previously gone through the discovery path won't stumble onto their next innovation, since they simply prompted a good baseline for ABC task, because we are lazy.

[nightski]

Even if AI knows everything and is basically sentient, we still need to understand these things to work with it. How can we prompt it reliably without understanding the subject matter for which we are prompting?

If anything I consider fundamentals in STEM (such as Math/CS) to be even more valuable moving forward.