On the last job on earth

We are experiencing a huge change of our society that many job was simplified, or even replaced by robot, machinese or computer. Even the so called "creative" job, like artistist and scientists.

If we realized that creative is just as simple as combination. As a famous quote said, a monkey can type a Henry IV by Shakespeare, if we give it enough time, or if we had so many monkey working. Another example is the IBM deep blue super computer, which was designed to play chess. Many people believe chess player require alot of instinct and creative to construct a strategy or a magic move, but in fact, the requirement of instinct can be replaced by huge calculation that the deep blue simulate the chess board for every possible move. The result is, it beaten the human champion Garry Kasparov.

Another achievement also come from IBM, the Watson. Watson is able to learn and understand human language. It is not simple google translate or a dictionary. It can understand the inner logic of a language, what a sentence infer the speaker emotional context by the conversation! The principle of Watson is learn by statistics, engineers feed the bible, Wikipedia, Shakespeare's and other English contexts. Thus, imagine one day, when you call the customer service hotline, on the other side of the phone is Watson, which also answering million other calls on the same-time.

Recently, scientists also build a robot scientist in bio-lab. And that robot scientist is able to give hypothesis, verify and make conclusion. Can you imagine if this robot scientist combine with Watson, which can be a huge active database and able to speak and write a scientific paper?

However, it is not the end. When we speak of combination, we infer that there is rules to make the combination. Although the rule can be very general and cover a huge area. There is a rule or a formalism.

Kurt Gödel shown on his incompleteness theorem, that, a mathematical structure cannot be shown by its principles or laws that it is logically complete and consistence. Thus, on building up mathematics structure, instinct is an essential. This instinct is a pure creation rather then just combination. Thus, as long as robot does not have instinct, ( which I doubt) the last job on earth is mathematician.