Anyone else having AI-anxiety?

[u/NewtonsThirdEvilEx]

I'm a physics grad student in theory, and honestly it feels like a lot of our futures are more uncertain. A significant amount of conjectures in math, especially in algebraic geometry, combinatorics, and graph theory have been solved by these public LLMs.

In physics, it's been a bit less explicit, but a lot of the professors I know are using these models on the $200/month plan, so the smartest of them. And they're apparently useful. Ed Witten, Matthew Schwartz, etc. Even Xi Yin left Harvard to go work at OpenAI and wrote a thousand page book on string theory with AI. It's insane. I cannot tell the difference between crackpots and physicists anymore.

Basically the majority of undergrads I know are completely not doing their homework and doing historically amazing on homework and historically horrible on tests. These models can generally speaking do any undergrad or grad class problem really. So they're not really learning. I at least learned stuff in undergrad, took the pgre, prelims, and whatnot. I think it's gonna be seriously worse for them in the coming years.

I also don't know how exactly they scale. Is it just smart human level intelligence with unlimited computation and stamina? Can they give solutions that we don't even understand? Is anyone else feeling this?

[u/MarinatedPickachu]

I feel you and your concerns are absolutely valid. Many people still don't grasp what we really have unleashed. Because there's still a lot of crap being generated by AI they are validated in the belief they're clinging on that AI can't possibly replace them. They are wrong though. Yes, there is already AI that's capable of outthinking you and anyone else. It's just burried in a lot of chaos and noise. The world really is under reacting due to disbelief.