A new benchmark named FrontierMath has exposed AI's lack of deep reasoning and creativity required for advanced mathematical reasoning.
FrontierMath is a collection of hundreds of original, research-level math problems that require deep reasoning and creativity, qualities that AI still lacks.
FrontierMath is tougher than the traditional math benchmarks that AI can solve such as GSM-8K and MATH, and is designed to avoid data contamination.
Mathematics is a unique domain to evaluate complex reasoning and test AI reasoning capabilities.
The difficulty of the problems has not gone unnoticed, and Fields Medalists Terence Tao, Timothy Gowers, and Richard Borcherds shared their thoughts on the challenge.
Even with tools like Python, the top AI models still could not solve more than 2% of the FrontierMath problems.
FrontierMath represents a critical step forward in evaluating AI’s reasoning capabilities, making it possible to measure progress toward true AI intelligence.
While AI has made strides in recent years, there are still areas where human expertise reigns supreme.
Epoch AI plans to expand FrontierMath over time, adding more problems and refining the benchmark to remain relevant and challenging for future AI systems.
FrontierMath shows that when it comes to solving the hardest problems in math, AI still has a lot to learn.