Even as a STEM person (computational physics & math) I'm underwhelmed by the claims and see the impact as 99% negative. Who the fuck cares whether it can (supposedly) knock off big-name open math problems if the price is de-skilling a generation of scientists, engineers and MDs?

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Perhaps you should restrict your predictions of revolutions to your own fields. Because all I see in my field so far: students using gAI to cheat on a catastrophic scale; AI destroying trust between faculty and students; and reviewers feeding unpub work into LLMs out of sheer laziness.

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Someone on here told me that more jobs are like software development than the people doing those jobs appreciates. And I wonder anew who are these people and have they ever left the house

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Two things are true: 1. Claims about AI capabilities are overblown 2. AI has completely revolutionized software development, and will do the same to many other fields I'm a software developer by trade. I'm going to attempt to explain what this revolution feels like "from the inside".

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Having finally identified the cause, you determine how to fix it. This could involve a small change to a specific component, or redesigning several components and their interactions from the ground up. This latter kind of work was some of the most satisfying to me.

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