Re:The Mathocalypse
by pbronez on Thursday October 08, 2026 @07:40AM
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Yeah the README on OpenAI/Math says:
“On average, each result used three hours of ChatGPT Pro thinking compute with that model. Over the course of the evaluation, the model was posed approximately 4,000 problems.”
That leaves a lot of ambiguity. Is “result” exclusively “positive result shown here” or “all results”?
Since proving infeasibility is a valuable result, the unpublished problems must not have reached a valuable end state. Thus it’s an operator decision of when to turn the machine off and try another problem. I’d thought they had a three hour time box on this, but apparently not.
“On average, each result used three hours of ChatGPT Pro thinking compute with that model. Over the course of the evaluation, the model was posed approximately 4,000 problems.”
That leaves a lot of ambiguity. Is “result” exclusively “positive result shown here” or “all results”?
Since proving infeasibility is a valuable result, the unpublished problems must not have reached a valuable end state. Thus it’s an operator decision of when to turn the machine off and try another problem. I’d thought they had a three hour time box on this, but apparently not.