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Holy shit. If an AI actually solves a Millennium Prize Problems we're seriously entering superintelligence (but not AGI) territory.
In any case this should disprove the "AI is just a statistically typing monkey" theorem some AI skeptics are fond of.
Ok, not sure I understand "AI is just a statistically typing monkey"? As far as I know AI simplified is just predicting what is statistically the most likely next word or is that wrong? I mean sure the way it predicts is complicated and word vectors are fascinating etc but highly simplified its a statistically typing monkey?
Just to be clear.
But yeah, if that happens, it will certainly be a major milestone.
Nothing can disprove that to that crowd, I’m afraid.
They think the problem is AI, when it's actually capitalism and securities fraud.
It's much simpler to fixate on the technology than to have to understand complex things like economics and history.