[meken]

> “What’s beginning to emerge is that the problem was maybe easier than expected, and it was like there was some kind of mental block.”

Even if AI never progresses past this point, it still seems like a huge win for math research to “clear the deck” of these.

[wslh]

The current state of AI is incredible, and useful and doesn't need to reach AGI to be revolutionary. For example, I uploaded a conversation between a few people and not only asked about translating the text but doing a psychological analysis on turn-turning and other conversational cues. Just around a decade ago, the speech-to-text Dragon Naturally Speaking[1] was not reliable with only one speaker without any background noise.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_NaturallySpeaking