This is not a benchmark. They just want to give people the opportunity to try their hand at solving novel questions with AI and see what happens. If an AI company pulls a solution out of their hat that cannot be replicated with the products they make available to ordinary people, that's hardly worth bragging about and in any case it's not the point of the exercise.
The authors mention that before publications they tested these questions on Gemini and GPT, so they have been available to the two biggest players already; they have a head start.
Looks like very sloppy research.
I don't think it's that serious...it's an interesting experiment that assumes people will take it in good faith. The idea is also of course to attach the transcript log and how you prompted the LLM so that anyone can attempt to reproduce if they wish.
They could solve the problems and train the next models with the answers, as such the future models could “solve” theses.
Hey, sorry, totally out of context but I've always wanted to ask about the username. I keep reading it as "yoruba" in my mind. What does it mean, if I'm not being indiscreet?
You're not the first to have wondered: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20730027
Well, now that I read that comment I remembered having read it before. My mind is going.