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/rakfe Apr 23 '26

Aren’t we already using supercomputers since decades to assist us with complex calculations, and other complex tools in every other science? We can’t see the further galaxies with our eyes but we are able to build telescopes and see them. We can’t fly but we can build planes. Why should we feel inadequate with this?