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New goalpost, and I promise I'm not being facetious at all, genuinely curious:

Can an AI pose an frontier math problem that is of any interest to mathematicians?

I would guess 1) AI can solve frontier math problems and 2) can pose interesting/relevant math problems together would be an "oh shit" moment. Because that would be true PhD level research.

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Considering that an LLM simply remixes what it finds in its learned distribution over text, it's possible that it can pose new math problems by identifying gaps ("obvious" in restrospect) that humans may have missed (like connecting two known problems to pose a new one). What LLMs can't currently do is pose new problems by observing the real world and its ramifications, like that moving sofa problem.

Yes. I doubt it can do that.

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