This is not a benchmark. They just want to give people the opportunity to try their hand at solving novel questions with AI and see what happens. If an AI company pulls a solution out of their hat that cannot be replicated with the products they make available to ordinary people, that's hardly worth bragging about and in any case it's not the point of the exercise.
Hey, sorry, totally out of context but I've always wanted to ask about the username. I keep reading it as "yoruba" in my mind. What does it mean, if I'm not being indiscreet?
The authors mention that before publications they tested these questions on Gemini and GPT, so they have been available to the two biggest players already; they have a head start.
I don't think it's that serious...it's an interesting experiment that assumes people will take it in good faith. The idea is also of course to attach the transcript log and how you prompted the LLM so that anyone can attempt to reproduce if they wish.
If this were a competition, some people would try hard to win it. But the goal here is exploration, not exploitation. Once the answers are revealed, it's unlikely a winner will be identified, but a bunch of mathematicians who tried prompting AI with the questions might learn something from the exercise.
