GPT-5.6 cuts human record 2.29 to 2.26 on a math problem
Original titleWell, the human record of 2.29 didn't last very long. @jasondeanlee used the double cycle cover prompt to get to 2.28 and with 8 (EIGHT!)...
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GPT-5.6 reduced the self-contracted curves bound to 2.26 after eight hours of further reasoning, building on a 2.28 result from @jasondeanlee that had already beaten the prior human record of 2.29. The result was written up in a paper linked in the post.
Source: Sebastien Bubeck · x.comPublished · added here