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I think it's a weird take because it implies that the 6 billion people he's talking about actually have some interest in knowing about the capabilities of LLMs to solve frontier math? This is simply not something they care about or can evaluate. There are maybe several thousand people in the world who have some (abstract and barely-monetizable) use for this information, plus probably another 100,000 who don't understand any of the math, but like to cheer on.

We have already reached "peak LLM" in terms of what normal people realistically need it to know or reason about. In fact, I'd say we reached that point about 1.5-2 years ago. There are two other barriers that remain unsolved:

1. They're less dependable than humans and can't be meaningfully punished or forced to make up for mistakes, so you can't really replace humans with them, not without having a human babysit.

2. Most people don't really have a special need for an LLM in their life. They may like that it answers questions or helps you polish a resume or, I guess the labs' favorite, helps you make restaurant reservations. But this sure isn't worth $200/mo for most people. Probably not even worth $5/mo.

It'd be kinda funny if we create superhuman AGI and then no one has any real use for it, perhaps except for military murder-bots. There's always market for that.

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