Noam Brown says LLMs surpass top human experts on some research problems

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Noam Brown argues that LLMs have crossed an important threshold by surpassing top human experts on some research problems, with the gap between slightly below and slightly above expert performance helping explain the seemingly sudden surge in math results. He emphasizes that capabilities remain jagged and models are still worse than humans in many ways, but expects continued improvements to bring breakthroughs in other domains and a new era of scientific discovery.

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