Superintelligent machines may well need us after all

Despite AI's dizzying improvements in mathematical ability, its successes show just how integral human mathematicians are to the scientific process In 1915, Albert Einstein stood before the Prussian Academy of Science and revealed the now-famous equations of his general theory of relativity. Einstein and relativity are synonymous today with genius, but these revelations were initially met with indifference, in part because the maths was too radical for his peers to fully digest. Today, tech firms would have us believe we are on the brink of "superintelligent" artificial intelligence capable of outperforming experts in most domains, producing scientific breakthroughs on a par with Einstein. As Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei put it, we will see " a country of geniuses in a datacenter ". Claims like these are often provided with little evidence, and identifying genius or elevated intelligence is a murky endeavour.