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.

Let it sink in how vague and almost meaningless that statement is.