@paulg: Interesting prediction. He might be right, but I think the two cases are different, if only because individual employee…
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Paul Graham responds to Alex Kontorovich's prediction that multiple AI systems will achieve IMO gold medals this summer, arguing the situation differs because employees at AI labs are genuinely curious about open problems.
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Interesting prediction. He might be right, but I think the two cases are different, if only because individual employees at the labs are genuinely curious about open problems.
Alex Kontorovich (@AlexKontorovich): Two summers ago (if anyone still remembers that far back), AlphaProof was one point off of a gold medal on the IMO. Last summer, a half-dozen labs declared gold medal performance. Shortly thereafter, I predicted that the number of systems getting gold this summer would be…
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