That sounds a great deal like what AI has done for software. Today in software, the work has gone from coming up with approaches and initial attempts to verification and making sure that what AI decided to do is fit for purpose.
replyThe amount of skill needed has gone down dramatically.
The skill floor has gone down dramatically, but the skill ceiling is still quite high depending on the domain.
replyI'm not sure how true that is. When Claude made progress on the Riemann conjecture, here are the kind of prompts used:
reply> Jarred's input was mostly limited to sending Claude messages of encouragement (mostly variants of “keep going” or “believe in yourself”).2 This seems to have helped Claude overcome some initial skepticism that it could make meaningful progress.
It seems like the kind of prompts a high schooler could come up with. What kind of problems were you thinking of as high skill?
https://www.anthropic.com/research/riemann-zeta
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