I like the idea of IMO-style releases, always collecting new problems, testing the AIs on them, then releasing to the public. What do you think, how important it is to only have problems with numerical solutions? If you can test the AIs on problems with proofs, then there are already many competitions that regularly release high-quality problems. (I’m shilling KöMaL again as one that’s especially close to my heart, but there are many good monthly competitions around the world.) I think if we instruct the AI to present its solution in one page at the end, then it’s not that hard to get an experience competition grader to read the solution and give it scores according to the normal competitions scores, so the result won’t be much less objective than if it was only numerical solutions. If you want to stick to problems with numerical solutions, I’m worried that you will have a hard time regularly assembling high-quality numerical problems again and again, and even if the problems are released publicly, people will have a harder time evaluating them than if they actually came from a competition where we can compare to the natural human baseline of the competing students.
I like the idea of IMO-style releases, always collecting new problems, testing the AIs on them, then releasing to the public. What do you think, how important it is to only have problems with numerical solutions? If you can test the AIs on problems with proofs, then there are already many competitions that regularly release high-quality problems. (I’m shilling KöMaL again as one that’s especially close to my heart, but there are many good monthly competitions around the world.) I think if we instruct the AI to present its solution in one page at the end, then it’s not that hard to get an experience competition grader to read the solution and give it scores according to the normal competitions scores, so the result won’t be much less objective than if it was only numerical solutions. If you want to stick to problems with numerical solutions, I’m worried that you will have a hard time regularly assembling high-quality numerical problems again and again, and even if the problems are released publicly, people will have a harder time evaluating them than if they actually came from a competition where we can compare to the natural human baseline of the competing students.