> zero intelligence here
That's head-in-the-sand stuff. AI is certainly very capable of being dumb (as are humans). But:
> “The problem was in need of a new real idea, which this new result seems to provide,” says James Maynard, a mathematician at the University of Oxford. “It seems that the AI has made a genuinely interesting mathematical contribution.”
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/no-ai-didnt-just-...
Nobody a decade ago would have said "oh yeah solving a bunch of open problems in research mathematics, and finding a bunch of zero days in Chrome and Firefox, and winning literature prizes, are things that don't require intelligence."