TSFKAT is still good for something; it informed me that today is the day that the Putnam exam is being sat.
The question is not “if” the machine will be able to answer those questions, but when.
/xantham I would put the odds at 50-50 that a publicly-available system can solve next year’s exam on the day of the exam.
But does that mean very much? The Putnam exam is a very specific type of mathematics; one that tends to not be very useful in any other context. And the problems are ones that could be solved in a generative sense without relying on mathematical insight; there aren’t that many possible approaches to this type of problem.
/red “aren’t that many” could easily be “tens of thousands”. A college freshman would be insane to memorize such a list, but an LLM could easily do so.