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I'm not sure what's crazier: AI improving a lower bound on RH, or AI improving a lower bound on RH and it not even making the front page of HN.

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That's how quickly your perception shifts when you are inside of a real, fundamental technological shift. If some similar computer program figured out the same improved bound just 6 years ago there would have been numerous blog posts, experts interviews and NYTimes, WaPo op-eds about some computer working on the Riemann hypothesis. Now that we are in the middle of it it's going to be a footnote at best.

True, however: if some human would improve the lower bound that would still end as some few posts on mathematics magazines, even if it would be no less impressive.

The general public is not interested in the mathematical details, it is interested in the fact this is unique. And it is no longer unique.

Right? I just learned about this and searched it on hacker news wondering why I didn't see it earlier.

Any human mathematician would be thrilled to prove a result like this, and it's not even big news anymore that an LLM can do it.

Where did you find the news?

So far I only found decent discussions about it in Chinese.

https://www.zhihu.com/question/2070336637360518307/answer/20...

I saw it first on reddit (r/math).

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