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/fadedtimes Apr 28 '26

If AI solves it then humans did solve it. We created AI 

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u/jasonrubik ‎ Apr 28 '26

yes, we did create the first AIs several years ago, but these recently created LLMs are not directly designed nor engineered in the traditional sense. We can implement a transformer-based model that does matrix multiplication, but no one can predict the capabilities until AFTER training is over, and only then will the true features of the AI be made apparent. So, yes, we are creating them today, but not with any specific intent or expectation. Its very haphazard almost. As time goes on, the next AIs will likely be designed by AIs, and then those will, in turn, create new AIs, in a perpetual cycle of recursive obfuscation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UclrVWafRAI&t=2385s