4 sources healthy · latest episode 9 Nov 2026
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The speaker finds it shocking and potentially concerning that AI mathematics capability progressed so quickly from providing mathematicians a 50% uplift to solving the field's biggest open problems end to end.

Unresolved speaker · Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement · 17 Sep 2026

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“uh uplift that you would expect in ai progress and then the thing that's shocking to me or uh concerning potentially is just like how fast we went from oh it's like they're giving me 50 uplift if you're a mathematician to wow they're just like end-to-end solving the biggest open problems in the field”
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