Comment by atleastoptimal

Lol the OpenAI naysayers on this site are such conspiracy theorists.

There are many things that are hard for AI’s for the same reason they’re hard for humans. There are subtleties in complexity that make challenging things universal.

Obviously the model was trained on human data so its competencies lie in what other humans have provided input for over the years in mathematics, but that isn’t data contamination, that’s how all humans learn. This model, like the contestants, never saw the questions before.