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Ultimately the main thing that will stop it from solving literally "all the others" are things like the impossibility of solving the halting problem, considerations like P ≠ NP, etc. But as we have just seen, despite these impossibility theorems, AI systems are still able to make substantive progress on solving important open real-world problems.


> But as we have just seen, despite these impossibility theorems, AI systems are still able to make substantive progress on solving important open real-world problems.

You seem to be smuggling in the assumption that this problem was "important".


All problems are important. You never know what might be useful.




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