AI is Tangibly Accelerating Progress Across Other Scientific Fields
lucasmeijer · x · 2026-07-21
Developer Lucas Meijer tweeted that the optimistic reading of AI—"it will accelerate progress in all other fields"—is kind of actually happening right now.
He subsequently proposed an interesting benchmark idea: apparently, no one has yet written a simple for-loop to pass the 100 most interesting math problems to a state-of-the-art model, which could serve as a direct way to test and track the true capability boundaries of LLMs in solving advanced mathematical issues.
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