An AI-found proof invents "alien" recursive code — how should we classify its creativity?
burny_tech · x · 2026-10-08
Quoting discussion of a UGC proof: it invents a bizarre new code with a noise test — "some crazy recursive construction... some alien craziness," not the long or short code. The poster asks whether this counts as combinational, exploratory, or transformational creativity, highlighting how AI-generated mathematical constructions diverge from human intuition.
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