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I mean, it's, it, it,
The approach doesn't scale currently.
Three days of Google's server time to one high school math formula, this is not a scalable prospect, especially with the exponential increase as the complexity increases.
We should mention that they got a silver medal performance
The equivalent of.
So first of all, they took way more time than was allotted.
And they had this assistance where the humans helped by formalizing.
But also they're giving us those full marks for the solution, which I guess is formally verified.
So I guess that's fair.
Yeah.
So there will be a proposal at some point to actually have an AI Math Olympiad, where at the same time as the human contestants get the actual Olympiad problems, AIs will also be given the same problems, the same time period, and the outputs will have to be graded by the same judges, which means that it will have to be written in natural language rather than formal language.
Oh, I hope that happens.
I hope this IMO happens.
I hope next one.
It won't happen this IMO.
The performance is not good enough in the time period.
But there are smaller competitions.
There are competitions where the answer is a number rather than a long-form proof.
And AI is actually a lot better at problems where there's a specific numerical answer.
Because it's easy to reinforce learning on it.