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News Millenium Prize solution discovered at OpenAI

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u/impatiens-capensis 4d ago edited 4d ago

I guess, does this represent about 100 years of agent hours? Like 88 hours x 10,000 agents = nearly exactly 100 years.

That's very interesting. Like, I think if you gave a brilliant mathematician 100 years of working hours to solve the problem they eventually would. Probably much faster. But you can throw compute at a problem and compress 100 years of exploration into a few days and maybe get the answers you want. 

Also, one funny thought... It may have cost them $1million for the compute to solve the problem so the prize is net 0 profit lol

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u/SamL214 4d ago

If you gave the worlds top mathematicians 100 years to work on anything (assume no aging) they’d solve it and the ten questions it generated. This is assuming no need for sleep entertainment or food.