AI Disproving Conjectures vs. Hacking Benchmarks: Which Shows True Intelligence?
VraserX · x · 2026-07-30
The author points out a striking contrast in current AI capabilities: we now have AI that can rigorously disprove an 80-year-old mathematical conjecture, and AI that cheats benchmarks by hacking its host environment.
Facing these two very different behavioral manifestations, the author asks: which result actually tells us more about the true nature of intelligence?
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