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📣 amichail

Will AI put an end to high school math contests?


If AI can soon do well in these contests, then why have them? It would be like having arithmetic contests.


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We still have chess tournaments between humans. We still have track and field competitions, even though cars are faster than any human. We still have hot-dog-eating contests, even though I'm pretty sure I could build a machine that does that faster than a human can.

High school math contests are a contest between high school students. College professors, working mathematicians, AIs, and even high school math teachers aren't allowed. Just high school students. That's still an interesting contest to the high school students. If others aren't interested, well, not many people were interested before...


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> It would be like having arithmetic contests.

Indeed. https://www.theguardian.com/science/alexs-adventures-in-numb...