Wild Demo: AI Agent Tries to Prove P=NP and Runs for 10 Hours
BLUECOW009 · x · 2026-07-22
A user shared an amusing AI experiment: they gave a coding agent the ultimate goal of proving 'P=NP', a famous unsolved Millennium Prize problem. Hilariously, instead of giving up or throwing an error, the AI agent has been continuously 'thinking' and running for 10 solid hours.
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