I guess there is a bit of a realization from the laymen (and I'm speaking as a member of that group) that a lot of these problems are toy problems.
It's clear of Fermat's last theorem. But I figured that the Millennium Prize Problems (of which there are only 10) would have some real spillover into either physics or chemistry.
Yet when one of them gets solved, it seems to be that the argument is, "yeah but not like that".
Imagine if an AI solved cancer, or a vastly cheaper way to get into space, we wouldn't react like that.
It's clear of Fermat's last theorem. But I figured that the Millennium Prize Problems (of which there are only 10) would have some real spillover into either physics or chemistry.
Yet when one of them gets solved, it seems to be that the argument is, "yeah but not like that".
Imagine if an AI solved cancer, or a vastly cheaper way to get into space, we wouldn't react like that.