alt Hacker NewsI'm not arguing that this isn't innovative or worthy of publication. Basically any result that moves the needle meets those criteria. I'm interested in how the results that OpenAI has published here differs from finding optimality solutions for incredibly niche optimization problems by throwing the problem in an enormous solver.
They differ in that there hasn't been a solver you could have thrown them at. I guess you could argue their harness + LLM setup is a "solver", but the approach is so different from what we used that word for in the past that I don't think it would be appropriate.