Here’s Don Knuth: Shock! Shock! …
Shock! Shock! I learned yesterday that an open problem I’d been working on for several weeks had just been solved by Claude Opus 4.6 […] ! It seems that I’ll have to revise my opinions about “generative AI” one of these days. What a joy it is to learn not only that my conjecture has a nice solution but also to celebrate this dramatic advance in automatic deduction and creative problem solving.
What a joy, indeed. To be 88, like Don, and still have your mind changed. Still curious. Still surprised. Still learning.