That’s a reasonable suspicion but as a counterpoint there might be more low-hanging fruit in biomedicine than math, precisely because it’s harder to test ideas in the former. Without the need for expensive experiments, math has already been driven much deeper than other fields, and therefore requires a deeper understanding to have any hope of making novel progress.
edit: Also, if I recall correctly, the average IQ of mathematicians is higher than biologists, which is consistent with it being harder to make progress in math.
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
That’s a reasonable suspicion but as a counterpoint there might be more low-hanging fruit in biomedicine than math, precisely because it’s harder to test ideas in the former. Without the need for expensive experiments, math has already been driven much deeper than other fields, and therefore requires a deeper understanding to have any hope of making novel progress.
edit: Also, if I recall correctly, the average IQ of mathematicians is higher than biologists, which is consistent with it being harder to make progress in math.
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