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Whatever you’ve been writing to me to ask if I’m aware of: yeah, I’m aware of it. In particular: I’m aware that, as announced by my former student (and now superstar profess…

Whatever you’ve been writing to me to ask if I’m aware of: yeah, I’m aware of it. In particular: I’m aware that, as announced by my former student (and now superstar professor) Lijie Chen, an internal OpenAI model has solved ten more significant open problems in math and theoretical computer science. One of them is parallel repetition for arbitrary quantum games—something that my good friend and colleague Henry Yuen worked on when he was a student of my wife Dana; you can read Henry’s comments on the AI’s achievement within Zvi Mowshowitz’s post here. Another is polynomial-factor hardness…

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