How an AI beat me at Olympics

How an AI beat me at Olympics

In 1996, I competed in an Olympics, as part of French team. Except it was the Olympics of mathematics, the "IMO".  And yesterday, I got beaten.

Yesterday, an AI just beat my score.

OK it wasn't a tough score to beat ... I didn't do so well 😅.

As the IMO organizers kindly remind us, the problems are designed to be incredibly challenging.

Yesterday, DeepMind AI announced that one of its systems earned a silver medal.

Actually it didn't participate and used 3 days instead of a few hours but still, it solved 4 of the 6 problems of this year's edition.

Worth noting: this isn't ChatGPT.

This is a specialized AI, similar to those developed for Go and Chess, built specifically for this task.

Beyond the hype around generalist systems like ChatGPT, this shows we're getting really good at building specialized AI that can tackle complex problems.

What does this mean for the future?

AI could help us solve some of the world's biggest challenges.

Another reason why I believe AI is here to stay 🚀

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*Text drafted through a chat with an AI model. Visual: Stable Diffusion derivative. Edits by Jean-Paul Paoli. Reach out if you believe part of this content infringes on copyrighted material