I don’t really like AI but let’s stop kidding ourselves, no human mathematician could make progress on a dozen major open problems in a week or two. If you’re measuring it against humans then it is by far the best mathematician to ever live.
If I had to create a tagline to describe my opinions about AI in a single sentence, that’d be it.
It’s possible to both hate AI and be impressed by it at the same time. Lying to ourselves about its capabilities does us no good. It’s emotionally difficult to do, but people need to come to grips with what’s happening and shake themselves out of a state of denial.
The AI results are clearly impressive. But these sorts of things are also in the ballpark of what human effort could solve given enough attention and time. Though it is hard to say.