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by JohnHammersley 27 days ago
Yes, I share your optimism overall, although I think it is raising a question of what the future role of the researcher is (much like the current debate on developer roles).

I attended a conference on AI for maths and open science a few weeks ago, and was struck by just how many examples of AI-supported solutions there already are. Virtually every speaker had an example of either their own use of (often the frontier) AI models in solving a problem that was previously too hard (for various definitions of hard).

I wrote up a few notes [1], and most of the speaker videos are available via the conference website [2].

[1] https://scholarlyfutures.substack.com/p/ai-and-the-practical...

[2] https://www.newton.ac.uk/event/ooew11/