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oytis ◴[] No.44609364[source]
I just hope when (if) the hype is over, we can repurpose the capacities for something useful (e.g. drug discovery etc.)
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charleshn ◴[] No.44610227[source]
I'm always surprised by the number of people posting here that are dismissive of AI and the obvious unstoppable progress.

Just looking at what happened with chess, go, strategy games, protein folding etc, it's obvious that pretty much any field/problem that can be formalised and cheaply verified - e.g. mathematics, algorithms etc - will be solved, and that it's only a matter of time before we have domain-specific ASI.

I strongly encourage everyone to read about the bitter lesson [0] and verifier's law [1].

[0] http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html

[1] https://www.jasonwei.net/blog/asymmetry-of-verification-and-...

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1. charleshn ◴[] No.44614230[source]
You can now add getting gold at IMO [0] to the above list.

[0] https://x.com/alexwei_/status/1946477742855532918

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2. bwfan123 ◴[] No.44616028[source]
on the surface this is a great achievement - if it holds . alpha-geometry required 1) human formalization of the question and 2) a solver for geometry

If the questions were given as-is (without a human formalizing it) and the llm didnt need domain solvers, and the llm was not trained on it already (which happened with frontier math) - I would be impressed.

Based on the past history with frontier math [1][2] I remain skeptical. The skeptic in me says that this happens prior to big announcements (GPT-5) to create the hype.

Finally, this article shows that LLMs were just bluffing in the usamo 2025 [3].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/1i53ih7/fro...

[2] https://x.com/DimitrisPapail/status/1888325914603516214

[3] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.21934