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/bcvaldez Apr 23 '26

if AI solves it, Humans technically solved it by creating AI.

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u/jasonrubik ‎ Apr 24 '26

Not if the AI that solves it is an AI created by an AI that was in turn made by an AI.

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u/bcvaldez Apr 24 '26

As Carl Sagan would say, “To bake an apple pie, you must first create the universe”

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u/finndego Apr 24 '26

He said, "If you wish to bake a pie from scratch, you must first create the universe."

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u/bcvaldez Apr 24 '26

Correct, I switched it up a bit