young_mete

They are very much useful, I even have an example in the beginning. They wouldn’t be plundered from the zones and sold for crazy money if they weren’t useful. I’m also not saying that what AI is dropping now is akin to alien artifacts. I’m posing the question of whether it may get there.

Usefulness doesn’t always rely on understanding. And it’s not a new thing in mathematics to have an answer without fully understanding it. We’re talking about a change in the rate of that happening, not a new phenomenon in itself.

I am Russian, read it in the original. But I'm scarred by being forced to read meandering classics from a very young age, so I may just have a more visceral negative reaction to it that I have to get over.

I tried "Monday Begins on Saturday" and had a pretty hard time getting through it. But I have to give it another chance - and check out the ones you mentioned.

Fair, “answers” is probably more precise than “knowledge.” That gap between answers and understanding is the whole point of the post, so I think we mostly agree.

It doesn't assume, it just observes. It has the capacity to use computers better than us, more persistently, in a more scalable way, to solve problems we haven't solved before like Navier-Stokes and many more to come. You can argue all you want about whether it's intelligent or not and what it means, but the solution is now here for us to process, understand, and integrate forward into our model of the world.