[Quiet Man Cometh]

Originally Posted by Coda

There are many, many, MANY problems in this world that are difficult to FIND an answer for, but much more feasible to VERIFY the answer once you have it. You set the computer up to figure out what mankind could never figure out on its own, and then you have humans check it.

To take AI out of the picture for an example: It requires an engineer to figure out how to make a car frame stronger, but any old schmoe can smash a car to see if it worked.

Whacking metal with a crowbar isn't going to tell anyone why the new method works, just that it does.

Unless an AI can tell us how it did something, then us verifying an answer could take as long as finding one in the first place. We do do things without knowing exactly what we are doing because sometimes, the result is more valuable than how it works.