alt Hacker NewsNot quite, all the proofs or disproofs so far AFAIK were using existing methods that humans developed and were already using to attack the problems, but AI is just more thorough. What AI can't do currently is develop new mathematical methods to attack problems that can't be solved with existing methods and AFAIK there is no known path to get current gen AI to do so.
That's fair and I agree. But stockfish can play successful middle games and there's no reason that AI cannot create research programs