Comment by sxp
16 hours ago
Related news:
- OpenAI claims gold-medal performance at IMO 2025 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44613840
- "According to a friend, the IMO asked AI companies not to steal the spotlight from kids and to wait a week after the closing ceremony to announce results. OpenAI announced the results BEFORE the closing ceremony.
According to a Coordinator on Problem 6, the one problem OpenAI couldn't solve, "the general sense of the IMO Jury and Coordinators is that it was rude and inappropriate" for OpenAI to do this.
OpenAI wasn't one of the AI companies that cooperated with the IMO on testing their models, so unlike the likely upcoming Google DeepMind results, we can't even be sure OpenAI's "gold medal" is legit. Still, the IMO organizers directly asked OpenAI not to announce their results immediately after the olympiad.
Sadly, OpenAI desires hype and clout a lot more than it cares about letting these incredibly smart kids celebrate their achievement, and so they announced the results yesterday." https://x.com/mihonarium/status/1946880931723194389
What a great metaphor for AI. Taking an event that is a celebration of high school kids' knowledge and abilities and turning it into a marketing stunt for their frankenstein monster that they are building to make all the kids' hard work worth nothing.
Well they keep doing it with programming, art and video, and soon probably most white collar jobs , terrifying and hurting hundreds of millions of workers in the process. I think we are way passed the point of tender sensibilities.
Not only, by not officially entering they had no obligation to announce their result so if they didn't achieve a gold medal score they presumably wouldn't have made any announcement and no-one would have been the wiser.
This cowardly bullshit followed by the grandstanding on Twitter is high-school bully behaviour.
also did they self-rate themselves?
If they failed and remained quiet, then everyone would know that the other companies performed well and they didn't even qualify.
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Google did the correct and respectful thing.
It appears that OpenAI didn't officially enter (whereas Google did), that they knew Google was going to gold medal, and that they released their news ahead of time (disrespecting the kids and organizers) so they could scoop Google.
Really scummy on OpenAI's part.
The IMO closing ceremony was July 19. OpenAI announced on the same day.
IMO requested the tech companies to wait until the following week.
OpenAI announced their results after the closing ceremony as was requested. https://x.com/polynoamial/status/1947024171860476264?s=46
> as was requested.
They requested week after?
He claims nobody made that request to OpenAI. It was a request made to Google and others who were being judged by the actual contest judges, which OpenAI was not.
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IMO agreed to cancel the embargo after OpenAI announced.
OT, but please consider posting links like this using xcancel, so that non-X users can read them.
https://xcancel.com/polynoamial/status/1947024171860476264?s...
This is weasily bullshit from Brown.
Proposed question for next IMO: "Show a proof that 'after the closing ceremony' and 'one week later' are not the same unit of time"