An Anthropic mathematician used Claude AI to find a counterexample to the 87-year-unsolved Jacobian conjecture, proving it false in three or more dimensions. How much of a genuine scientific breakthrough do you consider this?
- A real breakthrough — AI played an active, creative role in the discovery
- A useful tool, but the mathematician's expertise made it happen
- Overhyped — finding a counterexample isn't the same as proving something
- Impressive, but I can't decide yet how much of a breakthrough it is
