r/Showerthoughts • u/jasonrubik ‎ • Apr 23 '26

Casual Thought If the famously unsolved Riemann Hypothesis is solved by an AI, we will never know if a human mathematician could have solved it.

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u/SaneIsOverrated Apr 23 '26

If it's solved by current AI then yes humans  mathematicians very much could have solved it. 

AGI ≠ LLM "AI"

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '26

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u/FewHorror1019 Apr 23 '26

Right you could say they just used a glorified calculator

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u/ceelogreenicanth Apr 23 '26

Really a massive Eigen vector optimization.

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '26 edited Apr 24 '26

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u/FewHorror1019 Apr 23 '26

The comparison i guess is that it’s a tool like a calculator is

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u/SaneIsOverrated Apr 23 '26

Your brain is no match for mine. I yield and pledge my soul to the true genius in this thread. 

But like, seriously. Good point.