Developer Questions Whether Ordinary Users Can Solve Science Problems via Prompts
Developer felpix challenged OpenAI's claim that its models solved 100+ open math problems, arguing that ordinary users cannot drive frontier models to crack scientific problems via prompts alone, noting OpenAI itself hired PhD teams and average users rarely tackle open math with frontier models.
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