Google recently used an LLM coding agent to advance the state of the art on several math problems all in the same day. One matrix multiplication problem and several packing problems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGCmu7YKgPA
The fact that most people are using AI for garbage does not mean it's impossible to do anything good with it. "AI will never ___" is cope. I remember when AI would never draw a coherent picture, and then it would never draw hands, or animate, or write a program, or whatever else. The average "AI will never" statement lasts about 8 months.
Google recently used an LLM coding agent to advance the state of the art on several math problems all in the same day. One matrix multiplication problem and several packing problems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGCmu7YKgPA
Then there's protein folding: https://youtu.be/P_fHJIYENdI?t=1163
The fact that most people are using AI for garbage does not mean it's impossible to do anything good with it. "AI will never ___" is cope. I remember when AI would never draw a coherent picture, and then it would never draw hands, or animate, or write a program, or whatever else. The average "AI will never" statement lasts about 8 months.