AI researchers joke: fixing PDF parsing is harder than proving P=NP
tokenbender · x · 2026-09-09
- Dorialexander quips that "we'll fix P=NP before PDF parsing."
- tokenbender calls it "the real millennium prize (billions actually)", noting he scheduled the post over a year ago.
- The joke lands because reliable PDF-to-structured-text parsing of papers remains a stubborn bottleneck in AI research tooling, arguably harder than the Clay Prize problem itself.
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