Will AI put out new papers, theorems, code, and other artifacts, just like existing systems put out data that has to be synthesized into knowledge?
The massive dump of mathematics papers from OpenAI a few days ago suggests that we are going to be flooded with a new type of "data point": a theorem, function, larger piece of code, or even entire paper, just like digital systems and the Internet have flooded us with data in the last couple of decades.
Maybe we can call them synthetic papers, or synths, instead of actual academic journal papers?
What will it be like to try to sift through those, looking for the message or the meaning?
Each synth won't really represent a new piece of knowledge until, of course, it's evaluated for correctness, but also not until it can be incorporated into further work, and particularly not until humans can understand it, vouch for its importance and build on it. (Unless we all just want to go the way of the Eloi, but that would be a very long and somewhat separate conversation.)
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