AI will hand us breakthroughs we can't understand, like alien answer sheets
sterlingcrispin · x · 2026-09-09
- Weighing in on the Navier–Stokes AI controversy and a Fields laureate's remark that you need total immersion to understand such work, artist Sterling Crispin argues AI will bring incredible advances, cures and discoveries — but we'll use them without understanding them.
- He likens it to "aliens giving us solutions with notes too incomprehensible to follow", calling it a microcosm of the world ahead.
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