As Will notes, OpenAI has recently achieved two significant successes in its quest to create AI that is superior to humans. Its models, together with those from Google DeepMind, won gold medals in the 2025 International Math Olympiad and placed second in a prestigious coding competition.
That may actually provide some solace to those who think AI doesn’t represent a real threat to human intelligence. AI excels at mathematics and analysis, which are demonstrated in coding contests and the Olympiads. That doesn’t imply that it’s any better at handling the complexity of human emotions, coming to difficult conclusions, or producing art that speaks to everyone.
However, OpenAI’s research leaders are not willing to draw that distinction between the capacity for creative thought and machine-like reasoning.
“We’re discussing math and programming here,” Pachocki stated. “However, it really comes down to creativity, generating new concepts and tying ideas from various sources together.“
As a result, the researchers claim, these AI testing grounds will provide models with a growing capacity for human-like reasoning—one of the key objectives OpenAI is pursuing. Even the greatest reasoning models are restricted in their ability to connect disparate pieces of information and take a logical approach to challenges.
OpenAI is investing a great deal of money and skill in that issue because its researchers believe it will enable their AI models to become more intelligent than humans, not because they think it would lead to better scores in arithmetic competitions.
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