Yudkowsky: no general intelligence until a mind proves Riemann, ABC, Collatz and Goldbach without chain-of-thought
aran_nayebi · x · 2026-10-07
Eliezer Yudkowsky set a deliberately extreme bar for AGI: a mind doesn't have general intelligence unless it can prove the full Riemann Hypothesis, the ABC Conjecture, the Collatz Conjecture and the Goldbach Conjecture — without chain-of-thought. The provocation pushes back on loose definitions of AGI based on chat and coding benchmarks.
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