AI flip: it may plan your Boston trip before solving the Riemann hypothesis
jxmnop · x · 2026-10-08
The author reverses his earlier take: it's strange that AI may reliably plan a weekend trip to Boston before it can solve the Riemann hypothesis — a short observation on the odd gap between agentic everyday competence and frontier math ability.
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