9 Years to AGI? OpenAI’s Dan Roberts Reasons About Emulating Einstein
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Why it matters
Explains why test-time computeSpending more computation when the model answers — thinking longer, trying multiple attempts — to buy accuracy without training a bigger model.Full definition → adds a second scaling axis beyond training compute. That informs how practitioners think about reasoning modelA model trained to think — generating extended internal reasoning before answering — trading time and tokens for accuracy on hard problems.Full definition → capability and cost.
Terms in this piece · Glossary
test-time compute — Spending more computation when the model answers — thinking longer, trying multiple attempts — to buy accuracy without training a bigger model.
reasoning model — A model trained to think — generating extended internal reasoning before answering — trading time and tokens for accuracy on hard problems.
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