Susan Zhang highlights shortage of professional mathematicians in public AI discussions on X, noting combinatorial geometrists are rarer still

@suchenzang @yacineMTB even if we do consider math as the final frontier, it is not the kind of math that proves stuff, but the kinds of math that invents new concepts and then asks questions about them

@suchenzang @yacineMTB Still waiting for a post from https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao

@suchenzang Math is really cool and all but I don't think it's necessarily the "final beacon of human reasoning intelligence," any more than any other field.

@suchenzang Dont be pessimistic. I worship metaphysics. Theyre on the higher end

@suchenzang Business wants mathematicians who will chase their KPIs

@suchenzang + this post summarizes your entire social media experience

@Tacticsos @suchenzang It's quite close. The evergreen triad of philosophy, physics and mathematics. Depending on taste, one can choose one of these.

@suchenzang all true. I suspect being as smart as mathematicians means not using social media

@suchenzang The thing is, there's not so many pro mathematicians in general.

I'm involved a lot in language learning and app stuff, and I can see where the models are pretty good but stuff they just can't do at all. Practical stuff or evening planning, like business planning.

I'd say its the same mental model for a mathematician, some stuff its good at and some not.

@suchenzang "we all secretly want to be smarter than mathematicians" 99% of Americans don't want this.

@suchenzang wen people with mid takes are given monies for mid takes, everyone’s a mathematician

@suchenzang Hear hear!

@suchenzang all true, i make no comments on the future of math but the CoT on that OpenAI model was insane. Wish I could ask it some minorish but interesting open problems in differential geometry and PDEs so we can get something other than combo

@suchenzang Yeah, a lot of AI math talk on here is people auditioning for intelligence. I’ve been burned by that. Product taste usually matters more.

@suchenzang Has alpha go/zero revolutionize everything yet?

@suchenzang A simple system that works is infinitely better than a complex mathematical theory on a whiteboard.

The people arguing the loudest have rarely shipped products to real users.

@suchenzang If they're not on X they can't be that smart

@suchenzang no 5 is so true

@suchenzang I think people try to thing about what will come next too much instead of just emjoying this absolutly super cool proof