Terence Tao on O1 (mathstodon.xyz)
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I'm not skilled enough in math to do a rigorous evaluation, so it was a quick check.

Terence Tao is skilled enough, and he describes O1's math ability is "...roughly on par with a mediocre, but not completely incompetent graduate student" (good discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41540902), and the next iteration O3 just got 25% on his brand new Frontier Math test.

Seeing LLMs as useless is banal, but downplaying their rate of improvement is self-sabotage.