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The speaker characterizes GSM-AK problems as K–8 grade-school math problems that take a human mathematician about five seconds to solve.
Unidentified speaker · Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement · 17 Sept 2026
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“the models when they were doing GSM-AK,”
“when they figured out how to do GSM-AK,”
“that would take a human mathematician about five seconds to do a GSM-AK problem.”
“So this is grade school math,”
“grades K through 8.”Play from 24:33Report a misattribution
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