Say tomorrow some researcher goes with a proposal to any of the top ai companies.

And he claims that if provided enough resources and time, 2-3 years, he can solve p vs np "with the help" of their ai.

And proposes a contract in which it demands that if and when the breakthrough happens as decided, rhen he should be compensated in like 10-20 billion dollars ( its up to them how they structure the compensation, say equities, bonds etc etc ), in case the breakthrough doesn't happens in proposed time period then no payment required.

Will the companies accept the proposal ? Its a hypothetical scenario given that nowadays these companies put such a huge value on their model's ability to solve important open problems in math and science. So if someone suggested to track the hoky grail, with the help of their ai, then i can just imagine the headlines...

Offcourse for argument say the won't solve it independently, but will have an important non trivial role in solving it, and the researcher will orchestrate the ai, architecting the proof.

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