alt Hacker NewsThe abstract of the article is very short, and seems pretty clear to both of your questions.
This is what is special about them:
> a set of ten math questions which have arisen naturally in the research process of the authors. The questions had not been shared publicly until now;
I.e. these are problems of some practical interest, not just performative/competitive maths.
And this is what is know about the solutions:
> the answers are known to the authors of the questions but will remain encrypted for a short time.
I.e. a solution is known, but is guaranteed to not be in the training set for any AI.
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> I.e. a solution is known, but is guaranteed to not be in the training set for any AI.
Not a mathematician and obviously you guys understand this better than I do. One thing I can't understand is how they're going to judge if a solution was AI written or human written. I mean, a human could also potentially solve the problem and pass it off as AI? You might say why would a human want to do that? Normal mathematicians might not want to do that. But mathematicians hired by Anthropic or OpenAI might want to do that to pass it off as AI achievements?
> these are problems of some practical interest, not just performative/competitive maths.
FrontierMath did this a year ago. Where is the novelty here?
> a solution is known, but is guaranteed to not be in the training set for any AI.
Wrong, as the questions were poses to commercial AI models and they can solve them.
This paper violates basic benchmarking principles.