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by moi2388 14 days ago
How about philosophers?
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Good example! I think philosophy's purpose is to clarify and systematize unexplored intellectual areas. I imagine philosophers today are already using AI as intellectual sparring partners. I suppose if energy were cheap, we could run AIs all day long to pontificate like humans and write philosophical tracts on the issues of the day. When that happens, we will see if they say anything of merit.

Mathematicians will soon be left only to conjecture, with proofs being automated. The issue I see is that AI will devise proofs that are beyond our comprehension, since humans are already taxing each other (cf. Wiles, Mochizuki, Perelman, etc.) Once humans lose grasp of the proof, how will they propose new conjectures?

They make cab rides more enjoyable with their deep conversations.
They get paid to produce confusion.
They're getting paid?
Philosophy majors do surprisingly well in getting jobs outside academia, so I think the market demand for confusion is bigger than you might guess.
At Burger King?
I worked with two philosophy Ph.Ds in corporate strategy years ago. An a chemical engineer, and a nuclear engineer. We were all managing excel documents at the time.
It looks like it might confuse you, so they did the job well apparently.