Comment by haldujai

3 days ago

If you are referring to the Jacobian conjecture Claude only provided a counterexample, not a disproof, neither of which is necessarily a “new brilliant scientific idea”.

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throw-the-towel  3 days ago

The whole "AI is a parrot" argument feels like moving the goalposts so quickly, you could actually hear the whooshing sound they make as they move.

  • haldujai  3 days ago

    No, that’s not my argument. Rather it is that a counterexample to a mathematical proof whether produced by human or AI may be a scientific discovery but it is not inherently new and brilliant by definition.

    The case for AI is also weakened when the model is steered by an expert.