Reddit user questions AI pause: from strawberry fails to Millennium Problems in 2 years
Realistic_Stomach848 · reddit · 2026-09-21
A Reddit user raises two questions about calls to pause AI development: first, capability has jumped from the strawberry 'count the R's' failure to tackling Millennium Prize Problems in just two years — would a paused GPT 6 in 2030 still deliver the same price-performance? Second, what happens to capability (non-alignment) researchers at OpenAI and Anthropic if training actually stops — do they get laid off?
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