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Re:I believe there are entire companies right now under AI p... by 827a on Sunday May 17, 2026 @10:42AM (#48169374)
5.5 Pro has been leveraged to solve at least two previously-unsolved Erdos problems [1]. Whether these were unsolved due to being seriously untried by humanity, or because of their difficulty, isn't relevant; no human proved able to answer them, while our synthetic intelligence systems did.

In my personal life, I have leveraged these systems to design code that I don't believe I would ever have been able to designed. And, because no other human may attempt to, this means the same thing: That no human would have been able to do it. Things like reverse-engineering niche APIs and digging into binary files to diagnose weird format conversion issues.

[1] https://x.com/DavidTurturean/status/2054942008817451195

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Re:I believe there are entire companies right now under AI p... by 0x3f on Sunday May 17, 2026 @11:51AM (#48169997)
> Whether these were unsolved due to being seriously untried by humanity, or because of their difficulty, isn't relevant

That seems very relevant to my evaluation. I can pull out my calculator right now and solve a problem no human ever has.

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Re:I believe there are entire companies right now under AI p... by 827a on Sunday May 17, 2026 @03:45PM (#48172569)
True! But calculators are already priced in. LLMs now unlock a whole new class of problems that we can automate the solutions to; what we're seeing is the markets trying to figure out how to price that.
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