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Re:Can AI do maths yet? Thoughts from a mathematician by lupire on Monday December 23, 2024 @11:13AM (#42495444)
That's not useful by itself, because "anything cam model anything else" doesn't put any upper bound on emulation cost, which for one small task could be larger than the total energy available in the entire Universem
Re:Can AI do maths yet? Thoughts from a mathematician by pixl97 on Monday December 23, 2024 @11:40AM (#42495677)
I mean, that is why they mention super-Turning processes like quantum based computing.
Re:Can AI do maths yet? Thoughts from a mathematician by dinosaurdynasty on Monday December 23, 2024 @01:06PM (#42496304)
Quantum computing actually isn't super-Turing, it "just" computes some things faster. (Strictly speaking it's somewhere between a standard Turing machine and a nondeterministic Turing machine in speed, and the first can emulate the second.)
Re:Can AI do maths yet? Thoughts from a mathematician by staunton on Monday December 23, 2024 @06:32PM (#42498447)
If we're nitpicking: quantum computing algorithms could (if implemented) compute certain things faster than the best classical algorithms we know. We don't know any quantum algorithms that are provably faster than all possible classical algorithms.
Re:Can AI do maths yet? Thoughts from a mathematician by dinosaurdynasty on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @04:25PM (#42505042)
Well yeah, we haven't even proved that P != NP yet.
Re:Can AI do maths yet? Thoughts from a mathematician by red75prime on Monday December 23, 2024 @12:41PM (#42496129)
Either the brain violates the physical Church-Turing thesis or it's not.

If it does, well, it will take more time to incorporate those physical mechanisms into computers to get them on par with the brain.

I leave the possibility that it's "magic"[1] aside. It's just impossible to predict, because it will violate everything we know about our physical world.

[1] One example of "magic": we live in a simulation and the brain is not fully simulated by the physics engine, but creators of the simulation for some reason gave it access to computational resources that are impossible to harness using the standard physics of the simulated world. Another example: interactionistic soul.