> no human has broad enough knowledge and enough time to try them all.

The other part is, humans don’t really want to fund other humans doing this.

Very few want to be a math major; and of those that do, fewer complete a grad degree; and for those that do get grad degrees, there’s scant few research jobs; and for those who do get jobs there’s hardly any research funding to go around.

There does seem to be unlimited money for ai researchers to use ai to solve these problems though.

We’ve turned education into job training, so because there’s no jobs in solving math problems, few aspire to do it. If there were more opportunities for people, more people would do it, and more low hanging fruit would be plucked.