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Ask HN: Is September 8th AGI Day?

2•rvz•43m ago
Today should be celebrated as the day that "AGI" actually means something now. That an AI model gave a solution to the Navier-Stokes problem which was one of the 7 unsolved millennium prize problems.

Keep in mind that 1 (or less than 5) expert human mathematician (Grigori Perelman) out of 8 billion humans managed to solve 1 of the seven millennium prize problems which was the Poincaré conjecture. [0] That alone should tell you that an AI solved a problem which only 1 human was able to do. That is AGI, and there are no more goal posts to move. (Sorry Garry Marcus)

I understand that at the same time all of us are feeling what Lee Sedol (professional Go player) felt 10 years ago after the AlphaGo match, that there was no point in continuing and you might think that the AI knows best. There are still more problems yet to be discovered with AI and requires humans to verify.

So don't be sad that this 90 year problem was solved, just be happy that is exactly what AGI should be.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poincar%C3%A9_conjecture

Comments

bigyabai•41m ago
> So don't be sad that this 90 year problem was solved, just be happy that is exactly what AGI should be.

???

I feel like I'm going crazy reading this stuff. Are we about to be passed a Dixie cup with Kool-aid in it?

vouaobrasil•11m ago
As a former mathematician, I'm not impressed at all. I don't even care about the solution. I think an integral part of math is what the human mind can do, and if AI was required, then to me it's not impressive at all.

I never cared about merely solving problems. I care about the beauty that one can construct from the human mind, and that was the entire point, at least for me, to practise math. To me, what mathematicians have done with AI and Navier Stokes is worthless.

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