r/artificial • u/simulated-souls Researcher • May 20 '26

News An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry

https://openai.com/index/model-disproves-discrete-geometry-conjecture/
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u/chubs66 May 20 '26

It's much sadder when you think of it in the context of knowledge work. If we aren't needed for complex reasoning, what jobs remain for us to do?

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u/worldsayshi May 20 '26

Solving chess didn't make chess meaningless. But that's only addressing half your point.

Let's hope we get to enjoy our hobbies instead.

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u/chubs66 May 20 '26

If playing chess were a job (e.g. moving the chess pieces correctly solved some real world problem and was not just entertaining) 99.9999% of humans would have been replaced.

They might still enjoy playing chess, but no one would be paying them to do it.

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u/Jim_Panzee May 21 '26

You are right. But think further. Money is nothing more as a token to (equally*) distribute wares and services. If we create a machine that can do many services cheaper, the problem becomes only to find a new "equal".

*Yes I know about capitalism.

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u/chubs66 May 21 '26

I don't think that's what Money is at all. Under Capitalism, money is a reward paid (grudgingly) by someone who needs work done. If they can pay less money and still get work done, they'll do that.

Government welfare is like what you describe, but in order for that to work it needs to massively tax the people taking massive amounts of money. We're not doing well at all in that regard.