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The speaker says a human mathematician takes about 100 minutes to solve an International Mathematical Olympiad problem.
Unidentified speaker · Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement · 17 Sept 2026
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“And so every year you're seeing this like 10x increase in the tasks they're able to do in terms of like length of how long it would take a human mathematician to do it. And then it was very sensible that a year later we get to IMO gold because that's 100 minutes. That's about how long it takes a human mathematician.”
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