It's never racism if it's against us...
Racism is only bad when it's against black people? Disgraceful... This behaviours should not be allowed whether you're white or black.
u/Christs_Elite — 2 days ago
▲ 88 r/singularity
AI outperforms mathematicians
People are seriously underestimating how good AI has become at mathematics.
A few years ago, "AI can't do math" was a common criticism. Today, we're seeing these computer systems contribute to original mathematical research.
As someone who regularly uses frontier models for deep mathematical exploration, I can say that the difference compared to even 1–2 years ago is staggering. I have a friend that studied math at college and he's genuinely scared. He told me with confidence that too many kids are studying mathematics currently. AI will make the demand for mathematicians decrease A LOT.
Will AI replace mathematicians? Likely. But I think the future mathematician will be a human-AI team, and that team will outperform either one alone. However, we will need way fewer people studying it. If you understand logic, you can ask AI to deal with the mathematical language and formalize everything for you. Easy.
The broader implication is that mathematics was often viewed as one of the last domains requiring uniquely human reasoning and creativity. Watching AI steadily erode that assumption has been one of the most surprising developments for me. At the same time, mathematics is nothing but a language used to describe logic. AI excels at that.
u/Christs_Elite — 25 days ago
▲ 610 r/csMajors
This "CS has no math" narrative is driving me insane
I saw this LinkedIn post recently and the "AI isn't CS because it uses math" argument makes no sense. This narrative "If it uses a lot of math, it's not computer science" is so bizarre.
Computer science has always been deeply mathematical. Cryptography uses number theory. Theoretical CS uses discrete math and logic. Graphics uses linear algebra. Machine learning uses statistics and optimization.
Using mathematics doesn't somehow disqualify a field from being CS. Otherwise, half of computer science would stop being computer science overnight.
AI is about building computational systems that learn, reason, and make decisions. The fact that diffusion models involve stochastic calculus and differential equations doesn't make them "not CS" any more than electromagnetism being described by differential equations makes it "not physics.". It's applied math for computing.
The real issue is that people confuse computer science with coding or web development. CS isn't Python, it's a broad discipline that spans theory, systems, security, AI, graphics, databases, programming languages, and much more.
Math isn't evidence that something isn't CS. It's evidence that the field has depth.
EDIT: I'm a CS major, I had mandatory calc 3 and I research diffusion models on my CS master.
u/Christs_Elite — 25 days ago