OpenAI and Google Just Beat the World's Smartest Mathematicians

In this episode, we celebrate OpenAI and Google's historic gold medal wins at the International Math Olympiad, showcasing significant advancements in problem-solving abilities.

We discuss the technological breakthroughs enabling these achievements and the implications for education as AI challenges traditional notions of intelligence.

However, the competition was not without its share of AI drama, as the giants continue to compete at all costs in the AI game of thrones.

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro
1:35 AI vs. Math Olympiad
4:11 OpenAI's Breakthrough
6:54 The Gold Medal Debate
8:39 The Controversy Unfolds
12:51 The Google OpenAI Drama
13:42 OpenAI's Desperate Moves
15:20 The Models' Progress
17:38 A New Era of Intelligence
21:05 The Impact on Education
25:13 Redefining Intelligence
25:37 Conclusion and Farewell

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Ejaaz:
All right josh the ai nerds are

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fighting again this past weekend there was

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a very prestigious competition called the international math olympiad which

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hosts some of the brightest smartest mathematicians of our time and they're

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typically high schoolers and basically they come together and they take a really

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hard math test this is like four to five hours and those that score the highest, get medals.

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You can get bronze, silver, and the highest scorers get gold medals.

Ejaaz:
So what's this going to do with AI?

Ejaaz:
Well, recently, over the last couple of years, the organizers of this International

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Math Olympiad decided to start inviting AI models to participate as contestants.

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And they did terribly. Like, no one's come even near the human geniuses.

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Except this year, Josh, where they came to play and not one,

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but two AI models achieved not silver, but gold medals, which is just an insane thing, right?

Ejaaz:
So it should be all fun and games, right? What a fairytale story.

Ejaaz:
Well, unfortunately, OpenAI and Google got into an online spat where they started

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accusing each other of cheating.

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Now, remember, these are trillion dollar companies. So essentially,

Ejaaz:
Josh, I was teleported this weekend back to my high school days where I felt

Ejaaz:
like the teacher had to come in, separate the kids from arguing over some kind

Ejaaz:
of random homework problem and get them to chill out.

Josh:
We will look back at this episode and laugh at it like it's a joke because these

Josh:
AIs, they're competing against high schoolers. That's so lame.

Josh:
Only high schoolers? Like, come on, and you're just barely getting gold.

Ejaaz:
Well, in their defense, Josh, these are some pretty smart high schoolers,

Ejaaz:
man. Like I was looking at some of these math problems.

Ejaaz:
I don't know if you can see my screen here. I'm sharing the official site.

Ejaaz:
And if you look at some of these problems, here we go.

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And then like, okay, so they have basically, they host this competition in a

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different country each year.

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And you can kind of like download the test yourselves after the fact to see

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how well you could do it. I had a look at this one, Josh from the Afrikaans.

Ejaaz:
I basically don't understand anything. One second. All right,

Ejaaz:
take a look at that. Take a look at this.

Josh:
That looks like quite a bit of squiggly lines on a page.

Ejaaz:
You know what? That could be mistaken for a piece of art in a gallery if you

Ejaaz:
didn't peer too closely at it. This looks insane.

Josh:
Okay, so I take it back. So the high schoolers are probably pretty smart then.

Josh:
And I guess the AI performing as well as the high schoolers is probably a pretty big deal, right?

Josh:
Because that looks like very complicated math problems that I'm assuming most

Josh:
of the smartest people in the world cannot solve.

Ejaaz:
Exactly. Yeah. This is like something that is technically set for high schoolers

Ejaaz:
and sometimes college kids, but is meant to demonstrate prowess in the field.

Ejaaz:
So there's a lot of university academics, which obviously do math degrees and

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they do PhDs, but those are in very specific problems. So you kind of like in

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science, you just need to kind of pick and choose your lane and then dedicate your life to it.

Ejaaz:
High schoolers is kind of college kids are kind of like the last point before

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you jump into your specialization.

Ejaaz:
So really, if you're the best at generalized maths, you're going to compete in this competition.

Ejaaz:
And what's so interesting is typically AI models haven't been able to perform

Ejaaz:
very well because they needed a lot of context beforehand about the problem, Josh.

Ejaaz:
So they needed to know that, you know, there was certain, you know,

Ejaaz:
X equals something and Y equals something.

Ejaaz:
And they had to have defined parameters to kind of figure out the problem.

Ejaaz:
But this was the first time that AI models basically were just given a blank

Ejaaz:
sheet of paper or not a blank sheet of paper.

Ejaaz:
But they stared at the problem just as we just looked at it just now and had

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to read the words, read the characters, interpret what that meant in the context

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of that situation and the way that the question was framed and then figure it out themselves.

Ejaaz:
So it's as if the AI models had a camera that looked at a paper,

Ejaaz:
similar way that we look at test papers as kids through our eyes and figure it out themselves.

Josh:
So what changed? What happened in the last year that made it so much better?

Josh:
Because it went from, what, basically zero of six to now six or five of six questions answered.

Josh:
Now it's a gold medalist. So what happened?

Ejaaz:
So listen, I'm not going to try and explain it, but maybe you and I can decipher

Ejaaz:
it through the legends themselves that built these models, right?

Ejaaz:
Okay, so let me paint the scene for you, Josh.

Ejaaz:
It is Saturday evening.

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You know, normal people are usually out and about. They're having fun.

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They're probably having dinner, catching up with friends or chilling at home, watching a movie.

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And this guy called Alexander Wei, who is OpenAI's head of reasoning.

Ejaaz:
Reasoning is basically this new fancy technique that AI models have typically

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demonstrated, which has brought them up to like the frontier level of AI models.

Ejaaz:
Basically, if your model can do reasoning, it's typically a pretty smart model, right?

Ejaaz:
And he posts this tweet saying, I'm excited to share that our latest OpenAI

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Experimental Reasoning LLM has achieved a longstanding grand challenge in AI,

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a gold medal level performance on the world's most prestigious math competition,

Ejaaz:
the International Math Olympiad.

Ejaaz:
And he goes on to describe, you know, how the model basically took on each problem

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in its own regard and solved it and how this is a massive success and win for

Ejaaz:
AI models and how, most importantly.

Ejaaz:
OpenAI was the first ever model to complete this.

Ejaaz:
And not too long after he posts that tweet, Josh, Sam Altman jumps in here, right?

Ejaaz:
And he goes, again, he kind of echoes similar thoughts. We achieved gold medal

Ejaaz:
level performance on the 2025 IMO competition with general purpose reasoning.

Ejaaz:
And then he kind of like shells GPT-5 at the end. Basically,

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it's like a promotive thing for OpenAI.

Ejaaz:
And I will say that this is really cool because what they've achieved is something

Ejaaz:
that hasn't been done before, right? So very impressive feat.

Ejaaz:
And in terms of how this works specifically, Cheryl Su here gives a really good breakdown.

Ejaaz:
She says, the model solves these problems without tools like coding or Lean,

Ejaaz:
which is another coding tool.

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It just uses natural language. So as I said earlier, It kind of reads the paper

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and just kind of interprets what it thinks it means.

Ejaaz:
And it also has the same amount of time to do the test as other kits, so 4.5 hours.

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And she says, we see the model reason at a very high level, trying out different

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strategies, making observations from examples, and testing different hypotheses out.

Ejaaz:
And she says, it's crazy how we've gone from 12% on the AIME test,

Ejaaz:
which is what GPT-4O, which is OpenAI's early model, got to IMO gold,

Ejaaz:
International Math Olympiad gold medal in 15 months.

Ejaaz:
So just to set that in context, Josh, that is a crazy leap in 15 months.

Ejaaz:
Imagine going from eighth grade level math to the best.

Ejaaz:
Mathematician in the world in 15 months. It's a pretty insane thing.

Ejaaz:
Yeah, I'd say so. So essentially the breakthrough that Cheryl is highlighting

Ejaaz:
here is number one, the model didn't need any context.

Ejaaz:
Number two, it used really high level reasoning to figure out the problems from first principles.

Ejaaz:
And number three, it was able to test out multiple hypotheses at the same time

Ejaaz:
instead of trying to one shot the problem.

Ejaaz:
Typically in the past when AI models have been given a prompt or a problem,

Ejaaz:
it tries to just like give it its best shot and give you one solution, Josh.

Ejaaz:
Whereas what these models, these reasoning models do really well is they are

Ejaaz:
able to hypothetically entertain many different scenarios and then pick the

Ejaaz:
best one of which it thought it was an answer.

Ejaaz:
And it ended up with the gold medal, which is insane, right?

Ejaaz:
But it wasn't entirely without a few glitches here and there, Josh.

Ejaaz:
So if you look at this post from Jasper, he read through the entire kind of

Ejaaz:
like problem set that OpenAI's model went through. and he points out that some weird anomalies.

Ejaaz:
So he kind of like talks about like how it kind of like analyzed and a bunch of things.

Ejaaz:
And he goes, however, the write-up is kind of messy. He goes,

Ejaaz:
it overuses shorthand and sentence fragments.

Ejaaz:
It introduces new terms without definitions, for example, forbidden and sunny partners.

Ejaaz:
I have no idea what either of those terms could mean, but it was just apparently

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just interspersing these phrases during its analysis.

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And so as a reviewer, or as an examiner, they were reading this,

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they were like, sorry, wait, what is it talking about?

Ejaaz:
It got to the right answer, but what is it talking about, right?

Ejaaz:
The other key point from this post is it was unable to solve one problem, problem six.

Ejaaz:
And I'm not even gonna try and get into why it failed on that problem,

Ejaaz:
but it was just particularly hard for it to figure out.

Ejaaz:
But it still scored a high enough percentage that it got a gold medal.

Ejaaz:
So it's basically a win for OpenAI, but that's when the drama starts unfolding.

Ejaaz:
So I've got this post up from Mikhail Samin, which kind of like sparks this entire fight, Josh.

Ejaaz:
He goes, according to a friend, the IMO, which is the International Math Olympiad.

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Asked AI companies not to steal the spotlight from kids and to wait a week after

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the closing ceremony to announce the results.

Ejaaz:
OpenAI instead announced the results before the closing ceremony. Yeah.

Ejaaz:
And then he goes on to basically say how this is essentially like some kind

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of clout chasing move from OpenAI.

Ejaaz:
And OK, I tried to evaluate this, Josh, from OpenAI's kind of perspective,

Ejaaz:
which is they basically want to steal the limelight,

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but also say that they were the first AI model to ever achieve gold on this

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competition, which puts them in a good light and makes users want to choose

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OpenAI and solidify the branding that OpenAI is the best. right?

Ejaaz:
But on the other side, you know, they're kind of like stealing the spotlight

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from the kids, as this post says. But that's not actually the main trope.

Ejaaz:
The main trope here, Josh, is OpenAI wasn't the only model to achieve a goal, right?

Ejaaz:
At the same time, during the same testing period, you had Google achieving the exact same score.

Ejaaz:
So then the question becomes, okay, well, it was whoever was ethical about announcing their own result.

Ejaaz:
This post from Demis Hassabis, which is Google's head of AI,

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basically posts, and I'll note two days later, Official results are in.

Ejaaz:
Gemini, which is their flagship model, achieved gold medal level in the International Math Olympiad.

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An advanced version was able to solve five out of six problems.

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So same as OpenAI, same thing, struggled on the sixth problem.

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Incredible progress. Huge congrats to the team.

Ejaaz:
And a tweet here says that Google

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basically had to wait for marketing to approve the tweet until Monday.

Ejaaz:
But OpenAI shared theirs first at 1 a.m.

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On Saturday and stole the spotlight.

Ejaaz:
And we see the screenshot from Demis Hassabis, which, you know,

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he further clarifies this, basically saying,

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by the way, as an aside, we didn't announce on Friday because we respected the

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IMO's board's original request that all AI labs share the results only after

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the official results have been verified.

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Now that we've been given permission to share, blah, blah, blah,

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he shares. So Demis is playing the like good Samaritan here.

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He's like, ah, you know, we also have the good model, but we,

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you know, we have some pride and some manners about how we deal with these things.

Ejaaz:
That's where it starts to get a little uglier, Josh, because we have OpenAI

Ejaaz:
chiming in to this tweet, which basically says, and this is some random commenting

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on OpenAI and this entire situation.

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So OpenAI basically has zero advantages except the size of the team,

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aka the OpenAI team was claimed to be smaller than Google Gemini's team.

Ejaaz:
So what he's inferring here is there's no real difference between OpenAI's models

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and Google Gemini's models. You can pretty much use either or.

Ejaaz:
OpenAI maybe has a smaller team to build that model, but who the hell cares?

Ejaaz:
And then one of the AI model researchers at OpenAI basically comes in and says,

Ejaaz:
well, I think it's also interesting that they they

Ejaaz:
being google curated and provided useful context

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to the model which we did not feels like

Ejaaz:
taking your tutor's cheat sheet with you into the exam so shots basically being

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fired from open ai saying hey um you cheated you gave context to your model

Ejaaz:
and that was why it was able to achieve gold we open ai didn't provide any of

Ejaaz:
that context and it was able to reason from first principles, there you have it.

Ejaaz:
But then directly beneath it, Vinay Rameshes, who is a Google DeepMind AI researcher, responds,

Ejaaz:
it's worth noting actually that a deep think system, which is Google's AI system

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with no access to this corpus, so no context, also got gold.

Ejaaz:
Again, according to the official graders, and he puts this in brackets because

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OpenAI didn't wait for the official graders to mark their score,

Ejaaz:
with exactly the same score.

Ejaaz:
So basically, this is like a pissing contest between two of the top AI model providers.

Ejaaz:
Here's my take, Josh. And then I really want to kind of lean into what you think

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about this whole debacle.

Ejaaz:
Number one, this seems so childish to me.

Ejaaz:
Like, eventually, AI models were eventually going to get smarter or smart enough

Ejaaz:
to solve these mathematical problems.

Ejaaz:
And I think you said this earlier on.

Ejaaz:
This is something that they're going to probably laugh about 10 years from now,

Ejaaz:
right? that they were able to solve whatever, the most complex mathematic problems

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for humans, mere humans.

Ejaaz:
And now AI is off creating wonderful scientific discoveries for us that we would

Ejaaz:
have never comprehended or figured out ourselves, right?

Ejaaz:
So firstly, you're arguing over something that's so silly.

Ejaaz:
But number two, this kind of seems desperate on the open AI side.

Ejaaz:
And maybe I'm being biased, but I'm just going to give you my take.

Ejaaz:
Open AI has kind of had a series of stumbles recently.

Ejaaz:
They claimed that they were going to release gpt5 which

Ejaaz:
is their brand new frontier model but they've delayed it many months

Ejaaz:
now um they got outperformed by

Ejaaz:
grok 4 from xai uh so now

Ejaaz:
they have a new benchmark that they need to beat a new model that they basically

Ejaaz:
need to outcompete uh they claimed that they were going to release a new open

Ejaaz:
source model and then delayed it after a chinese open source model was released

Ejaaz:
and had one trillion parameters and outperformed not just their model,

Ejaaz:
but any other open source model out there.

Ejaaz:
And so I feel like they're looking

Ejaaz:
for a win, right? They released their agent this week or last week.

Ejaaz:
And so, you know, that had mixed review, mixed feedback.

Ejaaz:
So I feel like Sam is desperate for a win.

Ejaaz:
People are criticizing consistently their moat, asking what has OpenAI got?

Ejaaz:
They've lost a ton of researchers to Meta and other companies.

Ejaaz:
I feel like their back's against the wall.

Ejaaz:
Sam's scared and he basically needs to grab any kind of win.

Ejaaz:
So it reeks of desperation.

Ejaaz:
What's your take, Josh?

Josh:
I do empathize with the team. They've been coming under fire from every single angle.

Josh:
I mean, you have Zuck poaching all of their talent, and then all of the other

Josh:
open-source AI models are beating them at their own game.

Josh:
And they're just kind of, they're really getting beat up now.

Josh:
And I think that they're looking to get some footing. I'm sure this probably plays a role in it.

Josh:
But I'm sure behind the scenes, they're really trying to fight hard to put their

Josh:
feet back on stable ground, to get GPT-5 out the door, to build Project Stargate

Josh:
and make this big infrastructure network.

Josh:
They need some wins. So sure, this was probably an attempt to get ahead,

Josh:
make them look good, win over some more hearts and minds.

Josh:
But I think the most interesting part of the whole story is less the drama and

Josh:
more the fact that these models were able to accomplish a really impressive

Josh:
feat over such a short period of time.

Josh:
From what I understand, previously when they attempted to solve these problems,

Josh:
they used a custom training data set.

Josh:
They used custom tool sets. It was mostly a model trained on solving mathematical problems.

Josh:
And with this version, both the OpenAI version and the Gemini models,

Josh:
they were both general purpose models.

Josh:
They were not trained specifically with the intention of solving mathematical problems.

Josh:
These are the general models that people day to day are using.

Josh:
They're just now able to solve these math problems using this new general intelligence.

Josh:
So it's a really interesting breakthrough that I think we get from reinforcement

Josh:
learning that now there is not so much of an advantage to training a model specific

Josh:
to one's skill set when you could just make it great at everything.

Josh:
There was one thing that I noticed that some people call it cheating, other people don't.

Josh:
But so with the mathematical, with the actual test that high school was had

Josh:
to take, they're not allowed to use tools and they have a limited amount of

Josh:
time per question to answer.

Josh:
The models that, the OpenAI model and the Gemini model, they had infinite amount

Josh:
of time to answer and they were allowed to use tools.

Josh:
So there still are small differences in these.

Ejaaz:
Were they allowed to like use the internet?

Josh:
I don't know the specifics. I would imagine at least calculators,

Josh:
at most probably the full repertoire of what we have currently available to

Josh:
us, which is full internet search, code writing abilities. They could do their

Josh:
own mathematical checks.

Josh:
So I would just assume the minimum amount of constraints possible.

Josh:
So there was much less constraints on the models, But they did solve the questions.

Josh:
And I think that's super impressive. They got five out of six right.

Josh:
Which was gold and better than almost every student, if I'm not mistaken.

Josh:
Only a few students got the six out of six completely correct.

Josh:
It's just cool to see the rate of progress of these models getting better.

Josh:
That over the course of the last 15 months or so, they went from horrible and

Josh:
narrowly trained to incredible and generally trained.

Josh:
And as long as that trend keeps going, I think the drama matters less than the

Josh:
output, which is models are getting really good at solving really hard math problems.

Josh:
And original ones too, that the world has never seen before.

Ejaaz:
Yeah, well, that last point is actually the main takeaway that I had,

Ejaaz:
Josh, which is it's original, never-before-seen problems.

Ejaaz:
Typically, these AI models are trained on things that they've seen before, as you said, right?

Ejaaz:
They're trained on data sets. So they've already seen the problem,

Ejaaz:
and then they have to work out, they know the answer, and they have to work

Ejaaz:
out how to get there, right? So they kind of have a leading factor.

Ejaaz:
Here, it's just kind of like completely unknown.

Ejaaz:
The other thing is, this is kind of like the culmination of a trend,

Ejaaz:
Josh, which is these AI models are really good at doing kind of binary tasks.

Ejaaz:
And I don't want to reduce mathematics to binary tasks, but technically it's

Ejaaz:
numbers, sequential formulas, that kind of stuff, right?

Ejaaz:
So if you can run enough compute at a thing, and if you can get that AI model

Ejaaz:
to consider all different decision parts, It's going to eventually get to the answer, right?

Ejaaz:
But it's always a specific answer at the end of that, right?

Ejaaz:
Whereas when it comes to more subjective things, more human experiential things,

Ejaaz:
AI has typically struggled to...

Ejaaz:
Improve at the same rate that it has for like all these different scientific

Ejaaz:
and math problems so i'm glad that we've reached this pinnacle feat i think

Ejaaz:
ai models have are really good at one thing and not so great at other things

Ejaaz:
and i'm excited to see how like they kind of like try to start leapfrogging

Ejaaz:
each other over the next couple of years.

Josh:
Yeah it's it's that directional progress that we like

Josh:
math is clearly the first because you can write down

Josh:
proofs and you could check your work and there is an actual verifiable solution

Josh:
and i think that's why we're seeing a lot of the progress start early

Josh:
in math and then hopefully go on to these other places but

Josh:
what we are seeing is these first signs of

Josh:
new knowledge breakthroughs where it's solving a

Josh:
new and novel problem that hasn't been

Josh:
released before based on its previous data set

Josh:
so it's not just pattern matching like you mentioned earlier where it has

Josh:
this data set of questions it's kind of finding the right examples and

Josh:
then applying that logic to the question it's actually

Josh:
reasoning and it's it's reasoning in many instances and

Josh:
then it's comparing its work and it's it's coming to a conclusion

Josh:
and we saw this with the grok heavy model last week too when

Josh:
it released um where i think the the new

Josh:
meta is many instances solving hard

Josh:
problems and then comparing so you lower that error rate more

Josh:
and more and more each time and what we're seeing is great progress so

Josh:
i mean although open ai and google are fighting again they're both they're both

Josh:
fighting over over exciting progress and sure maybe one tried to sweep in and

Josh:
steal the valor but they both did an excellent job in actually completing these

Josh:
problems and placing gold in a test that was previously not possible to do from an ai model you

Ejaaz:
Know who the real winners are here out of this josh.

Josh:
Who's that high school kids

Ejaaz:
Who now have an AI model that can do all their math homework for them.

Josh:
Isn't that incredible? Like, man, think about it.

Ejaaz:
I wish I had that.

Josh:
You have an AI model that is as smart as the smartest people on planet Earth

Josh:
in high school. If it could solve those math problems, it could solve anything.

Ejaaz:
It sounds human as well, Josh. So, like, your teacher is going to struggle unless

Ejaaz:
they use AI themselves to figure out whether you just did that yourself or completely

Ejaaz:
just ran that through GPT, your mom's GPT subscription.

Josh:
It really forces you to re-evaluate the school model, right?

Josh:
Because now that this information is so readily accessible, it's so easy to solve these problems.

Josh:
Is that the actual thing worth learning? Or is it how to use these tools that's

Josh:
more important to get to the answer?

Josh:
And there's this there's this dual pronged approach and we see we see

Josh:
developers and programmers talk about this a lot where as soon

Josh:
as they start to rely too heavily on the tools they start

Josh:
to lose their touch they start to lose their ability to to deeply

Josh:
understand how it reaches conclusions um but

Josh:
is that worth it in exchange for getting to the answer much quicker and then

Josh:
being able to seek many more answers i don't know it's weird dynamic if i was

Josh:
a teacher i'd be worried because i mean similar to what we saw with the calculator

Josh:
it just replace the thinking process and just yield you an answer and

Ejaaz:
The thing with the calculator is like you you're

Ejaaz:
using the calculator so it figures out the answer for you but you kind of

Ejaaz:
loosely understand how it is working right you

Ejaaz:
know what numbers it's crunching to get to that answer and then typically you

Ejaaz:
do a few things on a calculator and then you get to your eventual answer for

Ejaaz:
whatever the original question was the issue with or the concern that you're

Ejaaz:
highlighting here with AI is it's doing really complex problems,

Ejaaz:
which kids don't even need to understand in the first place just to get an answer,

Ejaaz:
which they can then give to their teacher, get a grade and then go to university.

Ejaaz:
But the kids don't actually learn actively in that process.

Ejaaz:
And it's going to be a concerning trend if we see kids just trying to go from

Ejaaz:
zero to 100% without understanding anything in between.

Ejaaz:
A trend to watch.

Josh:
This is our episode from a few weeks ago. Is AI making you dumber?

Josh:
Yes. And I think that's just going to continue to be the question.

Josh:
Oh, God. And I think the answer is it's all dependent on how you choose to use

Josh:
the tools that you're given.

Josh:
And if you use these tools as further leverage. So I'm sure these math olympiads

Josh:
who can actually complete the problems would love to have this model to check

Josh:
the problems and to work through the problems and to figure out shortcuts on

Josh:
solving these problems.

Josh:
Where if you deeply understand it, then this becomes an amazing tool to check

Josh:
your work, to generate new questions for you.

Josh:
It's a great study, buddy. or if you are not an olympiad and you still want

Josh:
to get to the answer well you just kind of cheat your way through and you just

Josh:
ask it for exactly what you want so it's that it's that split again and it's

Josh:
up to the person to take their own agency solve their own problems and try to

Josh:
use these for for tools of leverage instead of just problem solving machines that

Ejaaz:
Actually reminds me of this tweet i saw yesterday josh um so what you're looking

Ejaaz:
at here is a tweet from dave white dave White is a very prestigious investment

Ejaaz:
slash research advisor at this fund called Paradigm,

Ejaaz:
which basically it's a crypto fund, but it is one of the wealthiest funds out there.

Ejaaz:
So a lot of the investments they made were massive wins. And a lot of the reasoning

Ejaaz:
of those wins was from Dave White's analysis.

Ejaaz:
He is a deeply thoughtful mathematician at his core, and he is famed for doing

Ejaaz:
a lot of analyses on companies, mathematical analyses that have ended up, you know.

Ejaaz:
Determining whether a fund puts $100 million in a company or zero, right?

Ejaaz:
So a very important job worth hundreds of millions of dollars, right?

Ejaaz:
And what he says here, basically, is him having an identity crisis,

Ejaaz:
because he has looked up to the IMO, the International Math Olympiad.

Ejaaz:
And he goes on to say in this tweet that subconsciously, whenever he's met a

Ejaaz:
gold medalist IMO champion, he's always subconsciously thought that they were

Ejaaz:
smarter than him, that he is more respecting of them.

Ejaaz:
And now with this news that AI models basically can do his job for him,

Ejaaz:
can reason better than him at some of these math problems, he now has an identity crisis.

Ejaaz:
He doesn't know kind of where to go from this. And if people like Dave White

Ejaaz:
is having this kind of like disillusioned sentiment from how smart AI is,

Ejaaz:
you can imagine how this is going to happen for everyone else in all of the

Ejaaz:
other sectors, Josh, right?

Ejaaz:
It doesn't matter if you're a mathematician or an investment research advisor,

Ejaaz:
you could be a technician in some kind of engineering industrial role,

Ejaaz:
or you could be a teacher, or you could be a kid or a high schooler.

Ejaaz:
I think this disillusionment is going to spread. And I think it's super important

Ejaaz:
for people to kind of like evolve their thinking, like you said,

Ejaaz:
Josh, and learn how to leverage these tools versus just consume.

Josh:
Yeah, this is, I mean, this is crazy. There's a lot of people that are going

Josh:
to have to adapt to this new world order of intelligence, where if you build

Josh:
up your entire identity around being intelligent, well, perhaps you're going to have to alter the way

Josh:
present yourself as intelligent because the meaning of intelligence is becoming

Josh:
commoditized among these tools that are now reduced down to a single chat box.

Ejaaz:
Yep. Benchmarks are going to have to reset themselves completely.

Ejaaz:
But folks, that is the end of this episode. Thank you so much for tuning in again.

Ejaaz:
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