<story><title>Terence Tao on O1</title><url>https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/113132502735585408</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fnordpiglet</author><text>Rewind your mind to 2019 and imagine reading a post that said&lt;p&gt;“The experience seemed roughly on par with trying to advise a mediocre, but not completely incompetent, graduate student.”&lt;p&gt;With regard to interacting with the equivalent of Alexa. That’s a remarkable difference in 5 years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>The first profession AI seems on track to decimate is programming. In particular, the brilliant but remote and individual contributor. There is an obvious conflict of interest in this forum.</text></comment>
<story><title>Terence Tao on O1</title><url>https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/113132502735585408</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fnordpiglet</author><text>Rewind your mind to 2019 and imagine reading a post that said&lt;p&gt;“The experience seemed roughly on par with trying to advise a mediocre, but not completely incompetent, graduate student.”&lt;p&gt;With regard to interacting with the equivalent of Alexa. That’s a remarkable difference in 5 years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>noch</author><text>The important point is, I feel, that most people are not even at the level of intelligence of a &lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;a mediocre, but not completely incompetent, graduate student.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt; A mediocre graduate science student, especially of the sort who graduates and doesn&amp;#x27;t quit, is a very impressive individual compared to the rest of us.&lt;p&gt;For &amp;quot;us&amp;quot;, having such a level of intelligence available as an assistant throughout the day is a massive life upgrade, if we can just afford more tokens.</text></comment>