Comment by FiberBundle
3 hours ago
Because there is zero evidence that LLMs/reasoning models can really come up with novel ideas, and it's very likely those will be needed to make substantial progress on AI research. The math results that have been proven have also "just" combined existing ideas or found counterexamples. I'm not saying those capabilities aren't impressive, but I just don't see a clear path to super intelligence with the current paradigm.
> The math results that have been proven have also "just" combined existing ideas or found counterexamples
The Exponential Time Hypothesis one used a novel algorithm though. And the approach was very surprising for experts[1].
> “Some parts [of OpenAI’s proof] are, maybe you could say routine, but then yes, there are two or three alien-looking parts, and it’s exactly these parts that I saw that made me think, wow, this is something that the whole community needs to work on together,” Williams told TechCrunch.
[1] https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/27/frontier-ai-labs-say-their...