Letter to a PhD student - David Bessis
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What's the point of intellectual work, if AGI is around the corner?
One morning about a week ago, I opened my direct messages tab on X and found this inbound request: I am someone finishing up a PhD in [a subject that isn’t pure math]. How should I cope with the claims that agi is here in 1-3 years and that all intellectual labor will be done. It seems many are doing great research right now but is it all for naught? Scrolling my timeline, I found a viral post (falsely) claiming that “the top physicists already surrendered” to AI superiority. All this took place while I was on a train to Paris-Saclay University, to speak on “math in the age of AI” at a…
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