I Don't Want AI's "Help"
The big AI story the last couple weeks has been about the doomsayers and their assessment that this awesome new tool might actually destroy human life in ten or maybe 20 years. They place the chances at something like five or ten percent. Well, that certainly gives you something to think about when you are reading your favorites sites and eating your yogurt! Check last night's scores and contemplate the impending doom of all you have ever loved and held dear. If they said you have a ten percent chance of getting into a horrible accident if you drive to the grocery store, well, I certainly would not do that. Yet, here we are. Somehow, I think that they are seriously exaggerating about the threat, but I have no actual Le reason for thinking that. But I do, and I don't think it's just a coping mechanism. That said, what I'm here to talk about is the second biggest AI story last week, which was that AI solved a mathematics problem of the very highest order, one which had ...
