AI cracks 80-year-old mathematics challenge and researchers are astonished

[John Clark]

The following are quotes from very prominent mathematicians about solving an important Erdős problem, they come from an article in the May 22 issue of the journal Nature, it's the same development that Scott Aaronson was talking about in his "Dispatches from the last days of human relevance".

AI cracks 80-year-old mathematics challenge — researchers are astonished

“If Erdős were alive, I am sure that he would just be raving about this advance,” 

"This is the first time that AI has autonomously produced an important result in any field of research"

 “I like to think that I have been a relatively measured voice on the impact of AI on mathematics, but this is incredible.”

"This is the first result produced autonomously by an AI that I find interesting in itself”.

“It’s kind of remarkable to see the model really reasoning through the problem like a human,”

"All of us expected to see this kind of thing at some point, but not so soon. It’s a big jump over what we were used to seeing a month ago.”

It's becoming very difficult to deny that we are currently entering the Singularity. 

John K Clark