alt Hacker NewsThis result is some evidence that AI will not solve RH soon. If there were any easy solution hiding in plain sight then it probably would have found it.
Solving RH likely requires AI that is substantially more creative. But we haven't even solved the creativity problem for writing let alone mathematics. I believe that transformers are a trillion dollar local optimum that we will find it very hard to escape.
Let's wait for the models to produce a good novel first.
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> This result is some evidence that AI will not solve RH soon. If there were any easy solution hiding in plain sight then it probably would have found it.
There's no way you can conclude that. Yes, "Fable 2" or whatever this was probably won't. But we can't know what Fable 3/4/5/etc will be able to do.
If anything, if we have 1 or 2 more years of progress like the last 12 months, which have been insane, I'd say LLMs are likely to solve it.
I would expect to see LLMs that are creative in math before any that are creative in writing. Creativity is more easily specified in math and the solutions can be formally verified. There's no good way to classify creative writing. Many truly great works are overlooked by experts and the public until decades later. Many derivative works are commercially successful.