[zozbot234]

> It was quite literally making random combinations of various trigonometric functions, absolute value, logarithms, polynomials, exponents, etc. into equations that were like a whole page long and just wiggling them around.

Technically, we call that a "neural network". Or "AI".

[aaaxyz]

It reminds me more of a genetic algorithm

[damagednoob]

Everytime I think I'm getting somewhere with a GA I eventually realise I've just created a guided monte carlo simulation.

[mjburgess]

This answers the question "will we ever have AI as smart as a human?"

Yes. It just turns out it's a particular human, whose analysis is very very dumb.