https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/25/science/ai-math-alphaproof-deepmind.html
Move Over, Mathematicians, Here Comes AlphaProof - The New York Times July 25, 2024.
If you are an AI fan, you wouldn't want to miss that two days ago, an article by The New York Times talked about AlphaProof - an AI that is good at math. "A.I. is getting good at math — and might soon make a worthy collaborator for humans" - written by Siobhan Roberts.
AlphaProof was able to solve 4 out of the 6 problems on the International Mathematical Olympiad test, performing at the level of a silver medalist. It was even able to solve question 4 in 19 seconds.
In case you are not familiar with the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), it is an international math competition with over 100 countries participating each year. It is comprised of 6 problems with 9 hours to solve them. All of the questions haven't been seen before. This means that none of the current questions can resemble any question from any previous math competition. Trust me, these questions aren't easy. Professor Po Shen Loh, a previous coach of the USA IMO team for 10 years from 2013-2023, can tell you all about it. I attended one of his talks yesterday, Training Younger Generations in the Era of AI, and it opened my eyes. https://www.poshenloh.com/
AI like ChatGPT has already been very proficient at taking already known knowledge and applying it to answer questions. So, if ChatGPT took the IMO test, I think that it wouldn't have gotten one question right. Since all of the questions on the test haven't been seen before, ChatGPT would have no way to know how to solve the problems. AlphaProof is a breakthrough as it proves that AI that can tackle new problems correctly.
Although AlphaProof spent several days working on some of the questions, speed is secondary for this kind of discovery. Once a machine can do something, it only ever gets faster at it. I think that in a few years, AlphaProof will be able to solve all 6 questions of the IMO test within the 9 hour time limit.
If AI can advance this fast, it will take our jobs in no time. We need to create new jobs. Are you ready?