What's Veeky Forums think about automation of jobs? What careers should one strictly avoid for the oncoming future?
I like math, but mathematicians and physicists are likely to be replaced soon by computers. Computer scientists seem like the most useful science today yeah?
>mathematicians and physicists are likely to be replaced soon by computers
you don't know what mathematicians and physicists do. highly technical, creative jobs are exactly the hardest to automate.
repetitive jobs like factory workers or other two year trades are probably the easiest to automate
>great at writing scripts
wat
name one theorem ever discovered by a computer
wouldn't it be easier for a computer to go through all the possible solutions to a problem? If programmed correctly, the computer can work out problems better than mathematicians and physicists.
That's why there are computer scientists working on that though
you might want to read some math proofs of theorems that go beyond first year calc if you think you can just 'go through all possible solutions' with a computer, maybe go read about the proof of fermat's last theorem or the abc conjecture or the fundamental lemma
and the computer can only do what you tell it to do anyway
but user...what if the computer scientists make the computer learn and upgrade its functions?
Why don't physicists and mathematicians just go to computer science and try to develop a better computer system for their specific problems?
computers are just as likely to replace mathematicians as they are to replace politicians and philosophers
mathematicians already use very advanced state-of-the-art algorithms as tools in their research. see numerical analysis,or the even whackier numerical algebraic geometry.
Computers can do anything their resources allow (needs to have enough RAM/HDD, or time if CPU is slow compared to the task). They are not limited to what you tell them.
Theoretically you can get a computer to do just about anything. Maybe make a simple evolutionary simulator that evolves itself into something more complex that eventually simulates a brain that creates this years best-selling animated movie all by itself.
no, you can't
right now you sound just like people who add "quantum" to pointless shit and treat it like magic
artificial intelligence isn't magic
Two-hundred-terabyte maths proof is largest ever
A computer cracks the Boolean Pythagorean triples problem
- nature.com
I am not talking about artificial intelligence specifically. Computers can do shit that you no person told them to do.
For example, go google neural network simulations.
Computer Program Self-Discovers Laws of Physics
you ARE talking about artificial intelligence because neural networks are PART OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
>Why don't physicists and mathematicians just go to computer science and try to develop a better computer system for their specific problems?
To give a serious answer to your question: that's pretty much what they do.
Outside of pure math research which at this point is meaningless autistic mental masturbation, the vast majority of math and physics research work is done by writing code and processing numbers on a computer.
Thing is, computer science is a very broad field. So instead of spending years studying computer science topics that are completely irrelevant to the problem of interest, they focus specifically on the knowledge and computer skills necessary to solve the problems they are working with.
I don't know where you got the idea that computer science is the only profession that works with computers but most STEM topics outside bio and pure math are almost all crunching numbers with computers once you get to grad school.
>hurr pure math is retarded pure math doesn't use computers
math.uiuc.edu
Don't be stupid. A neural network is not intelligent by default. It maybe fuzzy and adaptible, but it's hardly intelligent when it might consist of only a few neurons.
>bio doesn't use computers
way to show you don't know what you're talking about
artificial intelligence is also called pattern recognition and it's the name of a field of computer science, which includes neural networks
where were you when you realized computer scientists are the true scientists of the day?
Someone still needs to design the architecture of the neural network.
and then boom
no more mathematicians
Three words, The halting problem
You don't seem to have an inkling about Mathematics or Physics. I can't speak for physicists but living mathematics is more about the discussion of mathematical ideas and building theories than "solving problems". How do you get a computers to care about particular structures of logic? It's like getting a computer to care about certain styles of art.
just werks
>bio and pure math don't use computers
wowowowowow
and then boom, no more humans
>he doesn't know
>but mathematicians and physicists are likely to be replaced soon by computers.
no they wont.
>Politicians haven't already been replaced with computers
I think it is a good thing. We will live forever and live in a virtual reality utopia
this is the year
>What careers should one strictly avoid for the oncoming future?
Data Science. By far.