Philosopher Estimates AI Spent $20 Million Tackling Millennium Prize Problem

Oxford philosopher Toby Ord estimated that a frontier lab burned roughly $20 million in compute using swarms of over ten thousand agents to solve a Millennium Prize problem, with similar sums needed for each additional data point at other difficulty levels.

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