mathematics
3 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Mar 28, 2025 by Dan Hendrycks · across every show →
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Mar 28, 2025 bullish
Hendrycks: Mastering Humanity's Last Exam will signal superhuman math capabilities
“When there's very high performance on, on that benchmark that would be suggestive of something that has, say, in the ballpark of superhuman mathematician capabilities. And so I think that would revolutionize the, academy quite substantially. Because all the th…”
Jun 18, 2025
Jun 4, 2026 bullish
Hinton: AI in closed systems like math can improve without external data
“I believe, for example, in areas like mathematics, because it's a closed system you don't need data. You can just make conjectures and see if you can prove them and keep on like that. In that sense, it's a bit like AlphaGo where you can play against yourself.”