Ask HN: Why is problem solving in math still important in the AI age?
2 pointsby amichailan hour ago1 comment
  • bwfan123an hour ago
    > AI will soon be better than almost all human mathematicians at math problem solving.

    You misunderstand what mathematicians do. My favorite example is this: Birds can fly, but can they use their intuition to create a theory of flight, and then use that to build a plane ? This book by Bessis paints this really well [1].

    [1] https://www.amazon.com/Mathematica-Secret-World-Intuition-Cu...

    • qubex28 minutes ago
      Mathematician here: if we relied on AI to solve mathematics then it would be analogous to painters giving up when photography arrived. Art is not about depicting a scene, it is about transferring emotions and meanings visually; mathematics is not about solving problems, but forming curiosities forming intuitions about the patterns that underlie our reality.