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💥 What’s New in AI: OpenAI’s GPT-3 Inspired Model can Solve Problems from the Math Olympiads

Formal mathematics and theorem proving have been one of the most coveted goals of artificial intelligence (AI) since its early days. Despite massive progress in areas such as natural language understanding (NLU) and computer vision, math theorem proving is often held as one of those hurdles that need to be cleared on the path to AGI. Recently, OpenAI unveiled a model inspired by GPT-3 that is able to solve really complex math problems, including the ones presented in the high school math Olympiads.

High school math Olympiads, such as the IMO, AMC12, and AIME competitions, bring together the brightest math students from all over the world to compete in solving very complex theorem-proving problems. These competitions represent the pinnacle of high school math, and the problems often combine different areas of mathematics. The problems presented in high school math Olympiads are several orders of complexity higher than the normal high school math curriculum. As far as a benchmark for AI theorem proving, it doesn’t get much more challenging than this.

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