>>1210798because if something isnt sentient, ot would just be a robot or a machine. it is hypothesized ai may start to become sentient gradually, much like how it develops in newborn animals and humans .....can the electrical actibity of ai be enough to cause it? nopony knows for sure
finding the solution to the proof only involved combining knowledge from two separate mathematical fields that already existed. yes, it was technicslly nee as in no one did it before, but it didnt need to invent a new field of mathematics to do it. ...so not new in that sense. as math is highly precise and self-contsined in its rules, ai can do this easily
for wat would count, inventing an entirely new field of mathematics. more specifi ally, i would count it as "something new" (not necessarily proof of senience but perhaps a real piece of evidence) would be if it were able to solve certain physics problems, rather than just pure math. like say, if it comes up with the theoretical framework to invent some new part for something that, when created and tested, it allows for some lonsgstanding science/engineering problem to be solved -- like it solves the problem of how to make a cost-effective fusion reactor, for example or invents a theory that is then used to develop cold fusion ....
