Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit
> If you can predict the exact next word Einstein is about to write, every time, you’re as intelligent as Einstein!

Einstein is not hold in such esteem because he was really could at spewing out text or formal proofs or theorems, but because he was able to invent something no-one else could. Some people say he advanced physics 100 years wuth his theories in relativity, whether it is true or not.

So even if you can predict what Albert is going to write next, you are still merely copying old Albert. They are amazing at processing large amounts of data, naturally, but creating something new and surprising we have yet to see evidence of (the solutions of the millennium problems seem to be brute-forcing a solution based on fuckton of data to me, but I am not a mathematician so I guess it is up in the air still).