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My Mental Model of AI Broke on September 8

AI · Studies · 2026-09-09 09:18:00

On September 8, 2026, assuming the reported mathematical proof is correct, something fundamentally different happened. This is not about AI passing another benchmark. A genuinely correct solution to a previously unsolved Millennium Prize problem means an AI system may have produced new mathematical knowledge humanity did not have before. The author, who once viewed AI as a stochastic parrot, describes how this shattered his mental model. If AI moves from using existing knowledge to producing new knowledge at the frontier, education, research, careers, and our idea of human intelligence could change faster than society can adapt.

Source: rough-ideas.bearblog.dev


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