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How do you think a PhD committee should referee a dissertation where all the ideas came from AI?

It's already the case. I know a professor and he says most of his students PhD ideas are AI generated, meaning they are outsourcing the fun stuff.

and that generation was educated without AI. going to be interesting how future generations of mathematicians will fare who have been using AI from day 1. I suspect they'll be simply much worse at math.

That generation will say "How on earth people could do this without AI", just like we have said "How on earth people could do this without the internet".

The answer is in both cases, 100x slower.

Without agents - sure, 100x slower. But without LLMs? Some jobs I do would be borderline impossible.

I gave an LLM recently a job of analysing past sessions to estimate how much time it would take a human to do the jobs requested.

Ingesting 600k word document and drawing conclusions/patterns from it is something I routinely give to Terra. It would take a human 33h non stop to read it. But finding patterns with good precision - personally I wouldn’t be able to.

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