Would Poincaré miss the AI Boom?

From	Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm>
Newsgroups	sci.physics
Subject	Would Poincaré miss the AI Boom?
Date	2025-07-15 20:57 +0200
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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
  Stack Overflow is declining, and GitHub might be next (Re: Would Poincaré miss the AI Boom?) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-07-15 20:58 +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 21:27 +0200
    Re: Stack Overflow is declining, and GitHub might be next (Re: Would Poincaré miss the AI Boom?) Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-07-15 15:38 -0500
    Re: Stack Overflow is declining, and GitHub might be next (Re: Would Poincaré miss the AI Boom?) Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-07-15 15:56 -0500
  Re: Would Poincaré miss the AI Boom? Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-07-15 15:15 -0500
    I am not from Israel or Jewish (Was: Would Poincaré miss the AI Boom?) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-07-16 11:46 +0200
      Re: I am not from Israel or Jewish (Was: Would Poincaré miss the AI Boom?) Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-07-17 22:44 -0500
        I am neither Hanson (Was: I am not from Israel or Jewish) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-07-19 22:09 +0200
          Re: I am neither Hanson bertietaylor@myyahoo.com (Bertitaylor) - 2025-07-21 00:32 +0000
            Was Hanson your Bed Warmer? (Was: I am neither Hanson) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2025-07-21 10:17 +0200
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  Re: Would Poincaré miss the AI Boom? bertietaylor@myyahoo.com (Bertitaylor) - 2025-07-17 01:36 +0000
    Re: Would Poincaré miss the AI Boom? Jim Pennino <jimp@gonzo.specsol.net> - 2025-07-16 19:55 -0700
      Re: Would Poincaré miss the AI Boom? bertietaylor@myyahoo.com (Bertitaylor) - 2025-07-19 00:37 +0000
        Re: Would Poincaré miss the AI Boom? Jim Pennino <jimp@gonzo.specsol.net> - 2025-07-18 18:47 -0700
        Re: Would Poincaré miss the AI Boom? bertietaylor@myyahoo.com (Bertitaylor) - 2025-07-19 03:47 +0000
          Re: Would Poincaré miss the AI Boom? Jim Pennino <jimp@gonzo.specsol.net> - 2025-07-19 06:29 -0700
            Re: Would Poincaré miss the AI Boom? bertietaylor@myyahoo.com (Bertitaylor) - 2025-07-21 00:27 +0000
              Re: Would Poincaré miss the AI Boom? Jim Pennino <jimp@gonzo.specsol.net> - 2025-07-20 18:25 -0700
                Re: Would Poincaré miss the AI Boom? bertietaylor@myyahoo.com (Bertitaylor) - 2025-07-21 06:53 +0000
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