Re:I struggle to believe that AI R&D is ingenious
by scarmig on Friday November 06, 2026 @04:46PM
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I guarantee that you could not find a proof using brute force, even with literally trillions of dollars of compute. You're betraying a lack of understanding of the complexities involved, unless you're using a definition of "brute force" which is essentially equivalent to "intelligent search."
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Re:I struggle to believe that AI R&D is ingenious
by jasomill on Friday November 06, 2026 @11:39PM
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Brute force is certainly the wrong way to put it, but that doesn't mean it's easy to distinguish superhuman effort from superhuman intelligence, or, in the words of Thomas Edison, perspiration from inspiration.
Especially as the pure gruntwork involved in acquiring the knowledge required to merely understand the details of the mathematics involved represent at least a significant fraction of a human lifetime.
And unless this human process of knowledge acquisition continues, eventually no one will be left to understand and attach any significance to the results machines produce.