No, but the solutions they gave us would be pretty useless unless paired with understanding.

The societal rewards of the mathematical community's pursuit of answers to problems is not primarily in the answers themselves. It is in the practical problems that are eventually solved not by knowing the solution to the initial problem but by means of the new branches of mathematics that were invented to solve it.

Are you really unfamiliar with the concept that "the journey is the destination"? Read a book.

My gut tells me that we would be fine with that. LLMs are viewed differently by many people, and I can't decide whether people are so naturally opposed to these discoveries because the LLMs were manufactured by us (and should therefore be in someway inferior), or because the LLMs lack a 'soul'. It's a very interesting question to ponder.

My thoughts exactly. As far as I am concerned, super-intelligence that dominates pretty much everyone in mathematics already existed. Yet I didn't hear anyone declare that the existence of Jean Bourgain was a tragedy for mathematics. Why is it different when it's a machine or, as you mention, extraterrestrial life?

Greetings Earthlings. Here's some math stuff. In exchange, we own your planet now. We weren't asking btw. tnx.

Have they solved the math by eavesdropping our conversations and taking the credit?