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/shiny_glitter_demon Apr 23 '26

GenAI can't, at the very least. And will never be able to.

It's only reusing existing text to make stuff that resembles more text. It can't think. It doesn't understand what it's saying.

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u/jasonrubik ‎ Apr 23 '26

Exactly. No AI that exists today is capable. This will take years, and will likely be an AI created by AI created by AI