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Terence Tao

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#472 โ€“ Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

So now somehow it's, of course, geometry is a silver bullet problem.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#472 โ€“ Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

Right.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#472 โ€“ Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

That's true.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#472 โ€“ Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

That's true.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#472 โ€“ Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

I mean, it's still beautiful.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#472 โ€“ Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

Yeah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#472 โ€“ Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

It's a great work that shows what's possible.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#472 โ€“ Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

I mean, it's, it, it,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#472 โ€“ Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

The approach doesn't scale currently.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#472 โ€“ Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

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.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#472 โ€“ Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

We should mention that they got a silver medal performance

Lex Fridman Podcast
#472 โ€“ Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

The equivalent of.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#472 โ€“ Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

So first of all, they took way more time than was allotted.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#472 โ€“ Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

And they had this assistance where the humans helped by formalizing.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#472 โ€“ Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

But also they're giving us those full marks for the solution, which I guess is formally verified.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#472 โ€“ Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

So I guess that's fair.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#472 โ€“ Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

Yeah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#472 โ€“ Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

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.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#472 โ€“ Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

Oh, I hope that happens.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#472 โ€“ Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI

I hope this IMO happens.