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Re:First proof that "plunging regions" exist around black ho... by af78 on Saturday May 18, 2024 @02:28AM (#40396873)
AI or not, if a machine finds an answer so complex that no human can understand it, how useful is it?
Re:First proof that "plunging regions" exist around black ho... by ben_w on Saturday May 18, 2024 @04:06AM (#40397260)
I don't see that as being an important objection, because from the point of view of any single human… that's already true for the expertise found only in other humans.

I don't know the chemistry necessary to turn crude oil into any plastic, I don't know how to use a Lagrangian, I tried and failed to learn group theory (I've only got the basics, and I'm not confident about them), and I've still only got a toy model of special relativity (which is supposed to be the easier one) — and yet, not only are those all still useful, the four colour theorem is useful even though it's a non-surveyable proof: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-surveyable_proof

Re:First proof that "plunging regions" exist around black ho... by rthnbgrredf on Saturday May 18, 2024 @03:22AM (#40397068)
Depends on whether we can instruct the AI to make something useful out of it. Today we have complex systems like CPUs that most humans don't understand.
Re:First proof that "plunging regions" exist around black ho... by DonHopkins on Saturday May 18, 2024 @03:56AM (#40397210)
Or an answer so simple: 42.
Re:First proof that "plunging regions" exist around black ho... by cdchn on Saturday May 18, 2024 @04:10PM (#40401688)
Abstractions are a thing. We use devices all the time that we don't understand entirely the workings of.