Why do you need AI to ask the questions?

You give your AI the problem, like 'make this computer program faster and more reliable', and it'll go off and do the math necessary to make it so.

so you're 100% sure that AI will solve every intellectual problem in the future, since as long as that's not the case, it's us who need to ask the questions. I don't know man, I wouldn't bet on that. What if we end up being wrong and then there is not research community?

Huh? Where do I say that AI needs to solve every intellectual problem?

For all we know, P vs NP will never be resolved neither by human nor AI, and the world will just keep turning.

I don't understand what you're proposing then. We can ask AI to solve practical problems of interest (making a computer faster for instance), but I'd say no one really believes that this is an unlimited resource. At some point we'll reach a plateau, and then AI will be an important tool but to continue advancing we'll need someone to ask the right questions.

What is 'asking the right questions' supposed to mean?

I am saying that applications supplied and supply an inexhaustible amount of good problems and questions to consider. Purely theoretical concerns also supply some questions, but even if that well dries up for some reason, applications persist.

> Why do you need AI to ask the questions?

As the US has offshored manufacturing, the number of patents issued for those processes has fallen. Innovation occurs where the foundational understanding is applied; they arise from a desire to do the required work more efficiently.

Similarly in math, attempting to solve a problem leads to new questions. IF you actually do the work.

You need to have done enough of the work to know what the correct next question are, or you need to rely on AI for everything.

Offshoring worked really well. So I don't see the problem in repeating something like that success story.