/sci/ - Science & Math

>>16136806
>Open ended question
>Extremely radical take designed to arouse controversy
I see this exact format all the time for OPs. Is this a bot?

>>15505956
Expect the rates to drop even faster as AI progresses.
I was planning on going back to to school for a comp-Sci degree. But I'm not sure anymore. Since right now, ChatGPT can write decent code, and AlphaTensor figured out new matrix multiplication algorithms. Who knows what AI will be doing by the time I'd graduate...
What's the point of spending all the time, money, and effort if a machine will replace me soon after I graduate? Or arguably better, before I graduate.

Is it true all surface level crude oil has been used so if society ever collapsed we would never again advance beyond the point before the use of crude oil in machinery? Because the only ways of extracting oil would be through machines that need oil in the first place to operate.

>quality of life hasn't increased much in the last 50 years
>the average lifespan hasn't increased much in the last 50 years
>it's unlikely we will live long enough to become immortal or part of the singularity