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Would Poincaré miss the AI Boom?

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Henri Poincaré believed that mathematical
and scientific creativity came from a deep,
unconscious intuition that could not be

captured by mechanical reasoning or formal
systems. He famously wrote about how insights
came not from plodding logic but from sudden

illuminations — leaps of creative synthesis.

But now we have generative AI — models like GPT — that:

- produce poetry, proofs, stories, and code,

- combine ideas in novel ways,

- and do so by processing patterns in massive
    datasets, without conscious understanding.

And that does seem to contradict Poincaré's belief
that true invention cannot come from automation.

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Would Poincaré miss the AI Boom? Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-07-15 20:57 +0200
  GitHub 2.0: The no code companion repository (Re: Stack Overflow is declining, and GitHub might be next) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-07-15 21:28 +0200
  Re: Would Poincaré miss the AI Boom? Kendrick Fábián <prdmc@inbcb.hu> - 2025-07-15 20:59 +0000
  Re: Would Poincaré miss the AI Boom? nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2025-07-16 10:03 +0200
  Re: Would Poincaré miss the AI Boom? Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2025-07-17 18:23 +0200
    Re: Would Poincaré miss the AI Boom? Doyle Bahmatov <ht@vlb.ru> - 2025-07-17 17:30 +0000
      Re: Would Poincaré miss the AI Boom? Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2025-07-18 09:07 +0200
        Re: Re: Would Poincaré miss the AI Boom? The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2025-07-18 22:03 -0700
          Re: Would Poincaré miss the AI Boom? Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2025-07-19 08:32 +0200

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