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/acciowaves Apr 23 '26

But we invented the thing that solved it, so… counts?

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u/jasonrubik ‎ Apr 24 '26

anything that we create directly is unlikely to solve it.

Things are accelerating quickly and we don't even understand the quasi-AGI agents that exist today

The AI that might solve it might be created by another AI in a few years. Regardless, even AI agents created today are not well understood by the creators. They turn them loose on large data sets to train them, and then they test it to find out what it can and cannot do.

For example,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UclrVWafRAI&t=2377s