The Day Math Stood Still
How OpenAI’s 722-proof carpet bomb shattered the prestige of human specialization.
Fields Medalist Hugo Duminil-Copin revealed he cried after OpenAI released hundreds of AI-generated proofs, stating they “annihilated my field of research.”
The internal model dropped 722 manuscripts, scooping human researchers on unsolved math problems.
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And this is just the beginning for humans to become less relevant in the field of specialization and research.
One can be more successful as a daily wage electrician or janitor than as a scientist or researcher spending decades solving something that AI can manage in no time.
It’s a race for humans to seek relevance while their supremacy and meaningful ambitions get dethroned by their own failure to govern, and misuse of, their creation.
Administering the inputs and outputs is all humans have left when AI is in action, and one can easily predict how short a time this highly replaceable task will remain the role.
