AI went from failing grade-school math to top-level math in just a few years
andrew_n_carr · x · 2026-08-04
The quoted reply says it is surreal to see AI go from barely drafting emails and failing grade-school math after GPT-2/3 to solving math problems at the highest level within just a few years.
It frames the progress as the collapse of what once looked like fundamental limits: the models stopped feeling like mere statistical parrots and kept improving faster than many expected.
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