Re:Can AI automate AI R&D yet?
by hn_throwaway_99 on Sunday October 11, 2026 @03:29PM
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You should read the Guillen's post then, because that's not what it argues. And very importantly, the only Millennium Prize problem that OpenAI has claimed to have solved is mired in controversy because human researchers were on the cusp of releasing their results (and we're likely training OpenAI in the process). This is exactly the kind of "thinking", along with the other results in the OpenAI math dump, that fall firmly within this "convex hull" of ideas.
And also importantly, this framework provides the basis for some falsifiable hypotheses. That's very different from the AI boosterism that just seems to be saying that since AI capabilities are expanding at a breakneck speed that that speed will continue forever, as if a 13 year old will eventually be a hundred feet tall based on their recent growth rates.
> "This 100% deadly airborne superbacterium is inspired by natural bacteria, it's not truly original thinking," I say, as the superintelligent AI kills me and everyone else in the world