The International Mathematical Olympiad is not just a terrifying sequence of words for someone as maths-blind as myself, but also a notoriously challenging world championship mathematics competition for high school students from over 100 different countries. Each year students compete to show off their mathematical prowess in a chosen host country, each aiming to solve problems that would make the rest of us cower in fear.
Google DeepMind have produced a program that in a certain sense has achieved a silver-medal peformance at this year's International Mathematical Olympiad. 🧵https://t.co/DIcsYXUv97Not only that, but it's not like the AI sat down in front of a test paper and began chewing on its pencil. The problems were manually translated intoKeep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team.
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