[Dilettante_]

>and the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake

Except when someone hands you a magic button that just gives you knowledge?[at least in the framing of this "warning"] Then it's about peoples' livelihoods, about "culture", etc?

"Computer" used to be a job. Did science on the whole lose or gain by making these clerks obsolete?

[n64controller]

Human mathematicians are being exposed the same way the "artists" are. It was always about the money and to look clever, superior to other humans. Whether its robotically spending millions of hours drawing until they can put something together at the level of a chatgpt 3 or the rote memorization of formulas and rules. They like people to think it all came naturally and that its genetic and that they are special snowflakes.

[narsonika]

This is false on so many levels. Is it ragebait?

Both mathematics and art are comprised of two phases, the first, technical one, where the novice grinds the skill and the second, the creative one which can only be achieved if you have the means (skill) to express yourself. What you described is the technical phase, not the creative one. There is intrinsic value to it that has nothing to do with money or cleverness, something that if you ever experienced it yourself even once, wouldn't need to be explained to you. Only people who never reach phase two have your stance. Artists and mathematicians who pick academia didn't exactly have great commercial prospects before AI was a thing, yet they still chose those paths because that's what having a real passion looks like.

>They like people to think it all came naturally and that its genetic and that they are special snowflakes.

No, they don't. Most of them are the humble people that know the value of cultivating a skill and when they do pride themselves it's precisely because they know the staggering amount of hard work and commitment they invested. Most of them are worried for unemployment and don't want all their work to be reduced to training data and on top of that not be given well-deserved credit for it.

The only thing being exposed here, is how much AI in its current form was being underestimated and constantly labeled as "not real/good enough intelligence". This was and still is a shared sentiment even among tech people. Can't really blame them for going through a bargaining or acceptance stage.

And since you also sound like the kind of person who thinks prompting can replace the "robotically spending millions of hours" of practice, I've got news for you: it cannot. You are about to learn the hard way the value of skill and human understanding because as much as capitalism rewards "impact" and "results", the market never values easy things.