Thoughts on the present and future of AI and problem-solving
This is a collection of my thoughts on AI and problem-solving, which have remained relatively constant over the past few years, and some comments on recent efforts in this direction. Recently, Deepmind claimed that they had made significant progress on the IMO Grand Challenge, and their automated systems called AlphaProof and the buffed version of their original AlphaGeometry, called AlphaGeometry 2 now perform at the IMO silver level. Having monitored this field in the past on-and-off, this set off some flags in my head, so I read through the whole post here, as well as the Zulip discussion on the same here. This post is more or less an elaboration on my comment here, as well as some of my older comments on AI/problem-solving. This is still not the entirety of what I think about AI and computer solvability of MO problems. ...