Why Machines Aren’t Intelligent

OpenAI has announced that its latest experimental reasoning LLM, referred to internally as the “IMO gold LLM”, has achieved gold‑medal level performance at the 2025 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO).

Unlike specialized systems like DeepMind’s AlphaGeometry, this is a reasoning LLM, built with reinforcement learning and scaled inference, not a math-only engine.

As OpenAI researcher Noam Brown put it, the model showed “a new level of sustained creative thinking” required for multi-hour problem-solving.

CEO Sam Altman said this achievement marks “a dream… a key step toward general intelligence”, and that such a model won’t be generally available for months.

Undoubtedly, machines are becoming exceptionally proficient at narrowly defined, high-performance cognitive tasks. This includes mathematical reasoning, formal proof construction, symbolic manipulation, code generation, and formal logic.

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