OpenAI 在 IMO 数学竞赛的突破让专业数学家陷入身份危机。作者以"能与狗对话的人发现翻译器在沃尔玛只卖4.99美元"比喻这种独特技能被 AI 商品化的失落感。这种职业终结的悲伤未来数年将蔓延至所有数学家、程序员和知识工作者，甚至让人提前面对生命终结的恐惧。
Noam Brown 引用数学家反思：AI 攻克 IMO 带来知识工作者的身份危机
在亲眼看到一个 AI 精通你深切关注的领域之前，你可能很难“感受到 AGI”。每个人都会在不同的时刻迎来属于他们的“李世石时刻”。
OpenAI 的 IMO 消息这个周末对我打击挺重的 我想我还处在冲击的急性期 我自认为是一名职业数学家（一些真正的职业数学家可能会对这个说法有异议，但这是我的地盘我做主），而我觉得自己连一道 IMO 题都答不上来 好吧，是的，IMO 是数学里一个有点像竞技体育的细分领域，我并没有为此训练过，等等等等，但是。如果我在现实中遇到一个拥有 IMO 金牌的人，我会立刻更新为“这个人在数学上比我强得多” 现在一堆机器人能做到这件事了。作为一个把大量身份认同和实际生活都建立在“擅长数学”之上的人，这是一记重击。这是一种死亡。 就像，有一天你发现自己能和狗说话。这很有趣也很新奇，于是你做得更多，学习它们语言的精妙之处和它们最深层的习俗。你了解到别人对你的能力感到惊讶。你一直都不太合群，但你发现人们欣赏你的能力，想要你在身边帮忙。狗也欣赏你，你是唯一真正懂它们的双足动物。你为自己拼凑出一种归属感。然后有一天你醒来，万能狗语翻译器在沃尔玛只卖 4.99 美元 IMO 这个结果严格来说不算新闻。事实上，如果你看看 METR 的智能体任务时长随时间变化的图，我认为智能体能解决约 1.5 小时的问题正是如期而至。所以某种意义上我们不该感到惊讶。而且确实，似乎多家公司都取得了同样的结果。只是……潮水上涨的速度和它一直以来的上涨速度一样快 当然，为我作为数学家的个人身份（和/或作为社会中有生产力的一员）而悲伤，是这个故事里最小的部分 把这份悲伤乘以*每一位*数学家，乘以每一位程序员，也许每一位知识工作者，每一位艺术家……在未来几年里……这就是一个稍微大一点的故事了 当然，除此之外，还有对真正死亡的恐惧，这个也许我以后会再详细谈。 这一整套东西——对相关性的悲伤、对生命的悲伤、对我所熟知之物的悲伤——并不是 AI 时代独有的之类的东西。我认为这是当一个人接近职业生涯终点或生命终点时的一种常态。只是可能对许多人来说，它来得稍微早了一点，而且一下子全来了。 我想知道我们准备好了没有
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the openai IMO news hit me pretty heavy this weekend i'm still in the acute phase of the impact, i think i consider myself a professional mathematician (a characterization some actual professional mathematicians might take issue with, but my party my rules) and i don't think i can answer a single imo question ok, yes, imo is its own little athletic subsection of math for which i have not trained, etc. etc., but. if i meet someone in the wild who has an IMO gold, i immediately update to "this person is much better at math than i am" now a bunch of robots can do it. as someone who has a lot of their identity and their actual life built around "is good at math," it's a gut punch. it's a kind of dying. like, one day you discover you can talk to dogs. it's fun and interesting so you do it more, learning the intricacies of their language and their deepest customs. you learn other people are surprised by what you can do. you have never quite fit in, but you learn people appreciate your ability and want you around to help them. the dogs appreciate you too, the only biped who really gets it. you assemble for yourself a kind of belonging. then one day you wake up and the universal dog translator is for sale at walmart for $4.99 the IMO result isn't news, exactly. in fact, if you look at the METR agent task length over time plot, i think agents being able to solve ~ 1.5 hour problems is coming right on time. so in some way we should not be surprised. and indeed, it appears multiple companies have achieved the same result. it's just... the rising tide rising as fast as it has been rising of course, grief for my personal identity as a mathematician (and/or productive member of society) is the smallest part of this story multiply that grief out by *every* mathematician, by every coder, maybe every knowledge worker, every artist... over the next few years... it's a slightly bigger story and of course, beyond that, there is the fear of actual death, which perhaps i'll go into more later. this package -- grief for relevance, grief for life, grief for what i have known -- isn't unique to the ai age or anything like that. i think it is a standard thing as one appreaches end of career or end of life. it just might be that that is coming a bit sooner for many of us, all at once. i wonder if we are ready
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