Episode 5 - Defining AGI and the road ahead

How close are we to automating scientific discovery? What do AI competition wins really tell us about progress toward AGI? OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki and researcher Szymon Sidor share inside stories—from gold medals at the International Math Olympiad to surprising leaps in reasoning—that reveal where AI is headed next.1:20 – From high school in Poland to AI research leaders4:50 – Explaining AGI: technical and everyday perspectives6:30 – Automating scientific discovery with AI7:50 – Breakthroughs in medicine, AI safety, and alignment10:30 – Today is a decade in the making14:30 – Benchmark saturation and its limits16:50 – Why math competitions matter for AI18:15 – How models reason without tools21:45 – Recognizing when a model can’t solve a problem23:30 – Storytime: AtCoder competition in Japan26:50 – How reasoning breakthroughs really happen28:55 – What’s next for scaling and long-horizon reasoning30:30 – What AGI will look and feel like36:25 – Balancing trust and personal value34:00 – Advice to high school students in 2025 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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