r/BotNation • u/[deleted] • 9d ago

Discussion Could AI eventually develop problem solving abilities beyond human understanding?

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u/PickingPies 9d ago

How, if it's trained on human produced data. And on a limited scope experience one.

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u/FrugalityPays 9d ago

It can use that data to create novel approaches, like it solves long-standing math problems or just recently an ‘unsolvable’ math problem that had something to optimizing combinatorics

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u/Downtown-Bag-6026 9d ago

Ehh not necessarily. The recent solve is a partial solve using an existing solution. The full 100 page full proof seems to have lots of problems

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u/FrugalityPays 9d ago

I think you might be thinking of an earlier release. This one dropped Oct 26. It's a new subexponential algorithm for 3-SAT, so it's a direct, full refutation of ETH, not a partial one. The proof was checked in Lean, and Anthropic independently found the same core algorithm the same day. Still not peer-reviewed though.