Comment by famouswaffles
5 days ago
The original researchers who proposed this problem tried and failed multiple times to solve it. Does that sound like a 'nice chore to be solved' to you ?
5 days ago
The original researchers who proposed this problem tried and failed multiple times to solve it. Does that sound like a 'nice chore to be solved' to you ?
That's interesting context, where do you see that? I'm going off of the label "Moderately interesting".
edit: I see in the full write up that the contributor says that they'd estimate an expert would take 1-3 months to do this. They also note that they came up with this solution independently but hadn't confirmed it.
https://epochai.substack.com/p/first-ai-solution-on-frontier...
>The newly-solved problem came from Will Brian, who had placed it in the Moderately Interesting category. It is a conjecture from a paper he wrote with Paul Larson in 2019. They were unable to solve it at the time, or in several attempts since. Brian had this to say.
I actually still don't see the source for them trying several times, but we can take that for granted. Regardless, as I said:
1. It's labeled as "moderately interesting"
2. They said that they expect an expert could solve it in 1-3 months
3. They had already come up with the solution that the AI had but weren't convinced it would have worked
So how big was the gap here, do you think?
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