It seems like making progress on math is letting the AI run fully autonomously for a few days, occasionally asking it to keep going.
I'm not sure people need to organize a mathathon to wait for a computer to give a printout. They mainly need tokens.
I think the purpose of an event like this would be to optimize the process so that it isn't just occasionally asking an AI to keep going.
Are they actually autonomous? I’d say subject knowledge at the prompt stage plays a large part towards getting proper results