It's over for mathematicians
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/inside-the-secret-meeting-where-mathematicians-struggled-to-outsmart-ai/
>Defeated, Ono jumped onto Signal early that Sunday morning and alerted the rest of the participants. “I was not prepared to be contending with an LLM like this,” he says, “I’ve never seen that kind of reasoning before in models. That’s what a scientist does. That’s frightening.”
>“This is what a very, very good graduate student would be doing—in fact, more.”
>The bot was also much faster than a professional mathematician, taking mere minutes to do what it would take such a human expert weeks or months to complete
>Defeated, Ono jumped onto Signal early that Sunday morning and alerted the rest of the participants. “I was not prepared to be contending with an LLM like this,” he says, “I’ve never seen that kind of reasoning before in models. That’s what a scientist does. That’s frightening.”
>“This is what a very, very good graduate student would be doing—in fact, more.”
>The bot was also much faster than a professional mathematician, taking mere minutes to do what it would take such a human expert weeks or months to complete