Re:Ask HN: Can anyone name anything new that AI has done?
by SamInTheShell on Friday November 13, 2026 @10:13AM
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Have you looked through this repo? I'm not seeing enough here to really answer the question posed. Like some of this repo, I know came from correlation of information not connected before (like the quasi-Riemann result). Some of it is just an extension of ground work already done, not necessary new in a sense that should be interesting. We know word calculator can calculate. There's probably a lot of human credit missing here.
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Re:Ask HN: Can anyone name anything new that AI has done?
by unified101 on Friday November 13, 2026 @10:25AM
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I think if you are strong headed enough, you can ignore that the sky is blue and day is light
Re:Ask HN: Can anyone name anything new that AI has done?
by SamInTheShell on Friday November 13, 2026 @10:38AM
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Some of us lack reading comprehension and show up defending a a repo as proof without ever having read what's in it. We are not the same.
Re:Ask HN: Can anyone name anything new that AI has done?
by bscphil on Friday November 13, 2026 @10:34AM
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> Like some of this repo, I know came from correlation of information not connected before (like the quasi-Riemann result).
We give Fields medals to people who do things like that. There's no particularly good reason to bury your head in the sand and pretend AI is different. It's not surprising that the first big discoveries involve standing on the shoulders of previous researchers and their work. When work is described as "new" in some way, that's usually all we mean by it.
Re:Ask HN: Can anyone name anything new that AI has done?
by serioussecurity on Friday November 13, 2026 @10:34AM
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So you already know that it works you just don't admit it?