alt Hacker NewsI am sorry but your argument looks to contradict itself: They solve hard mathematical problems because they are stupid and use brute force? Then why a human skilled in mathematics guided them for many turns in their conversation?
If they were really stupid, a Prolog program, a genetic algorithm or a SAT solver would be enough to reach the goal. Clearly it was not the case.
Can't you kind of think of them as a genetic algorithm that has a very good hypothesis generator? Humans could, in principle, help guide that (already very impressive) hypothesis generator to make better guesses to find the proof more easily.