The parent wants to be skeptical… nothing wrong with being suspicious of marketing claims, right?
I would be a lot less impressed if I found out the session was guided by an expert in the field who already had a good idea of where to look. For example, I don’t believe that the results Terrance Tao gets from an LLM are comparable to what I am going to get.
I’m not even saying I’m a skeptic. Just that there’s nothing wrong with keeping your eyes open and asking for details.
Why? The conjecture stood for over a hundred years. Plenty of such experts have tried.
"Fable makes experts able to solve things" is still a big story. I don't need to personally be able to do it for it to be a big story.
It seems obvious to me that you’d need someone to point at a thing and say “pay attention to that”, as a baseline, to have any results at all with the current architecture and technology