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Hacker News has set AI a lot of challenges over the years. Which ones has it met?

2025 Januarybigpingo

About whether skeptics keep dismissing each new AI achievement, like DeepSeek R1 coding.

I have always had the same line:

AI will blow my mind when it solves an unsolved mathematical/physics/scientific problem, i.e: "AI, give me a proof for (or against) the Riemann hypothesis"

An AI solves an unsolved mathematical or scientific problem, such as proving or disproving the Riemann hypothesis.

Has this happened?

Yes 114 (79%)Not sure 16 (11%)No 14 (10%)

Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.