alt Hacker News>Many of this the AI can never imagine and won't reach by itself without human assist.
Are you sure about that? It looks like artificial neural networks can, in principle, do anything biological neural networks can do.
I think it's more likely the opposite: there are steps we could never reach without computer assist.
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dodger-dog • yesterday at 11:34 PM
Even if I tell it to work on its own, it is always a tool in my hand. I grant it agency for my purposes. I'm the Meta-Master.
The question for mathematicians is: what can a mathematician do with these new tools that no one else can?
Waxing nostalgic about the sound of pencil on paper or the beauty of your abacas is a different conversation, as is the complaining about who moved my math cheese.
Yes, 100% when goals are defined and rewards are a part of the feedback loop.
Isn't open ended research is truly open ended. Like there are a gazillion questions to ask and even more solutions that can be offered. Now which questions to pursue is human volition. Yes, humans will not be able to reach certain steps without computer assist.
However, which questions to ask is a human endeavor, out of infinite possible pool of questions.,
now computers can ask questions as well. But if it were to ask it will be more like a monkeys and typewriters type of a situation. Tons of questions and a few that are relevant for the interested human., who has to foot the bill for those questions.