It doesn't even have to discover anything new to be a compelling proof of concept. All it has to do is discover something we already know without having been fe

It doesn't even have to discover anything new to be a compelling proof of concept. All it has to do is discover something we already know without having been fed the answer in some way. Today's AIs can't do this, because the entire basis for their intelligence is having been fed all the answers humanity has, and regurgitating those back to us in a somewhat more flexible and adaptive way than a search engine.