On the other hand, frontier math (pun intended) is much worse financed than biomedicine because most of the PhD-level math has barely any practical applications worth spending many manhours of high-IQ mathematicians (which often makes them switch career, you know). So, I would argue, if productivity of math postdocs when armed with future LLMs raises by, let’s say, an order of magnitude, they will be able to attack more laborious problems.
Not that I expect it to make much difference to the general populace or even the scientific community at large though
On the other hand, frontier math (pun intended) is much worse financed than biomedicine because most of the PhD-level math has barely any practical applications worth spending many manhours of high-IQ mathematicians (which often makes them switch career, you know). So, I would argue, if productivity of math postdocs when armed with future LLMs raises by, let’s say, an order of magnitude, they will be able to attack more laborious problems.
Not that I expect it to make much difference to the general populace or even the scientific community at large though