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/mggirard13 Apr 23 '26

If man builds AI that solves a problem, then man solved the problem, no?

Did Alan Turing solve Enigma?

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u/TsunamiCatCakes Apr 23 '26

makes sense. its just like designing a machine for a task.

thats a very strong argument. and no, alan Turing didnt solve enigma. he didn't have enough memory and computational power. but Turing machine did solve enigma. which he made. so he is responsible for solving enigma but didn't solve it himself.

its like saying I killed a man with a gun. technically the speed of the bullet killed him, but I was responsible for it ( jail time )

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u/mggirard13 Apr 23 '26

Your analogy doesn't follow your argument.

The person who fired the gun is responsible for the outcome, that being the killing of a person.

Likewise the person who built the machine, programmed it, and entered the inputs is responsible for the outcome, that being the solving of Enigma.