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Ryan Swindall
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Sam Altman says:
"GPT-5.5 was maybe as good as an average math professor, 5.6 as good as a top 1–2% one — and the internal model past Astra can do things even the best mathematicians cannot"
Math has seen an unusually fast takeoff, but by almost any definition, this is a fast takeoff
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Sam Altman: "GPT-5.5 was maybe as good as an average math professor, 5.6 as good as a top 1–2% one, and the internal model past Astra can do things even the best mathematicians cannot"
Math has seen an unusually fast takeoff, but by almost any definition, this is a fast takeoff.
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Sam Altman: "GPT-5.5 was maybe as good as an average math professor, 5.6 as good as a top 1–2% one — and the internal model past Astra can do things even the best mathematicians cannot"
Math has seen an unusually fast takeoff, but by almost any definition, this is a fast takeoff.