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AI Solves IMO Geometry in 19 Seconds Using Brute Force Method
Dwarkesh Patel Podcast
Grant Sanderson – AI and the future of math
"Geometry, just solves in like 19 seconds in 2024, 'cause it's kind of a brute force solver. And the dirty secret is for students, there's also sort of a brute force way that you kind of can go at it."
Grant Sanderson revealed that AI systems achieved breakthrough performance on International Math Olympiad geometry problems by essentially brute-forcing solutions in under 20 seconds, contradicting the narrative that these problems require deep creativity. He noted that had the 2024 IMO included more geometry problems instead of combinatorics, the AI would have won gold that year.
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