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Also neither got a gold medal. Both solved problems to meet the threshold for a human child getting a gold medal but it’s like saying an F1 car got a gold medal in the 100m sprint at the Olympics.


The popular science title was funnier with a pun on "mathed" [1]

"Human teens beat AI at an international math competition Google and OpenAI earned gold medals, but were still out-mathed by students."

[1] https://www.popsci.com/technology/ai-math-competition/


Indeed, it’s like saying a jet plane can fly!


"Google F1 Preview Experimental beat the record of the fastest man on earth Usain Bolt"




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