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The speaker says a good mathematician would probably take about 10 minutes to solve the referenced AIME-level problems, and models achieved that capability a year later.
Unidentified speaker · Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement · 17 Sept 2026
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“It would take a human mathematician,”
“like a good mathematician,”
“probably like 10 minutes to do. And the models were able to do that a year later.”Play from 25:05Report a misattribution
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