This is not a benchmark. They just want to give people the opportunity to try their hand at solving novel questions with AI and see what happens. If an AI company pulls a solution out of their hat that cannot be replicated with the products they make available to ordinary people, that's hardly worth bragging about and in any case it's not the point of the exercise.
replyHey, sorry, totally out of context but I've always wanted to ask about the username. I keep reading it as "yoruba" in my mind. What does it mean, if I'm not being indiscreet?
replyThe authors mention that before publications they tested these questions on Gemini and GPT, so they have been available to the two biggest players already; they have a head start.
replyLooks like very sloppy research.
replyThey could solve the problems and train the next models with the answers, as such the future models could “solve” theses.
replyNothing prevents them, and they are already doing that. I work in this field and one can be sure that now, because of the notoriety this preprint got, the questions will be solved soon.
replyIt's possible but unlikely given the short timeline, diverse questions that require multiple matheamticians, and low stakes. Also they've already run preliminary tests.
reply> It's possible but unlikely given the short timeline
replyYep. "possible but unlikely" was my take too. As another person commented, this isn't really a benchmark, and as long as that's clear, it seems fair. My only fear is that some submissions may be AI-assisted rather than fully AI-generated, with crucial insights coming from experienced mathematicians. That's still a real achievement even if it's human + AI collaboration. But I fear that the nuance would be lost on news media and they'll publish news about the dawn of fully autonomous math reasoning.
That was exactly my first thought as well. All those exercises are pointless and people don't seem to understand it, it's baffling.
replyEven if it's not Anthropic or OpenAI paying for the solutions, maybe it'll be someone solving them "for fun" because the paper got popular and posting them online.
It's a futile exercise.