Ofir Press jokes his "millennium prizes would take 100 years to saturate" benchmark line aged badly
OfirPress · x · 2026-09-09
Benchmark researcher Ofir Press shared his standard talk line: a benchmark should be hard but not too hard — "the millennium prize problems could be a benchmark, but it would take 100 years to saturate that."
His self-deprecating "oops" points at AI cracking hard math problems far faster than expected, making the joke about benchmark saturation land differently.
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