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The speaker thinks overall mathematical progress from AI may be less substantial than it appears when measured only by direct solutions to well-scoped problems.
Unidentified speaker · Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement · 17 Sept 2026
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“And so maybe like the actual progress in mathematics broadly construed is smaller than it might seem if you're just looking at end well scoped problems that are directly solved. However,”Play from 23:09Report a misattribution
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