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Ask HN: Is September 8th AGI Day?

An anonymous Hacker News post claims that an AI model solved the Navier-Stokes problem, one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems, and argues that September 8th should be celebrated as 'AGI Day.' The post notes that only one human mathematician, Grigori Perelman, has solved a Millennium Prize Problem (the Poincaré conjecture), suggesting the AI's achievement indicates artificial general intelligence. The author acknowledges the need for human verification and compares the moment to Lee Sedol's reaction after AlphaGo.

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Today should be celebrated as the day that "AGI" actually means something now. That an AI model gave a solution to the Navier-Stokes problem which was one of the 7 unsolved millennium prize problems.

Keep in mind that 1 (or less than 5) expert human mathematician (Grigori Perelman) out of 8 billion humans managed to solve 1 of the seven millennium prize problems which was the Poincaré conjecture. [0] That alone should tell you that an AI solved a problem which only 1 human was able to do. That is AGI, and there are no more goal posts to move. (Sorry Garry Marcus)

I understand that at the same time all of us are feeling what Lee Sedol (Go player) felt 10 years ago after the AlphaGo match, that there was no point in continuing and you might think that the AI knows best. There are still more problems yet to be discovered with AI and requires humans to verify.

So don't be sad that this 90 year problem was solved, just be happy that is exactly what AGI should be.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poincar%C3%A9_conjecture

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49618229](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49618229)

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