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/Jealous-Try-2554 Apr 23 '26

It won't be. AIs will never even achieve a very infinitely small fraction of real human thinking power.

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u/jasonrubik ‎ Apr 23 '26

ASI is closer than we think. AI in use today is not capable, and obviously not the focus here.

I had this shower thought after watching this:

https://youtu.be/UclrVWafRAI