International Mathematical Union endorses warning about tech industry influence.

“Mathematicians should find it quite striking that tech companies are suddenly interested in their work,” said Kevin Buzzard, a mathematician at Imperial College London, in a statement. “The Leiden Declaration is a well-thought-through response to what is currently happening, as AI continues to disrupt this space.”

The point here is that “AI” grifters are latching onto mathematics, not vice versa. In reality mathematicians invented computers, have been using them ever since, and realize that “AI” has never existed.

  • BeigeAgenda@lemmy.caEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I feel sorry for the mathematicians that have to sort through thousands of papers full of slopmatics before they find the human written ones.

  • okamiueru@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Threat to mathematics, in the same say way as the threat to software? Noise machines (aka bullsit generators) are destroying voluntary work (open source contributions / peer reviews) because of the marked decrease in signal to noise?

    Or, in the “LLMs will do math better than humans”?

    I wonder why the distinction isn’t better made. The bubble sure wants to pretend it’s the latter.