The solution wavefront will spread from math/coding to physics, chemistry, and other fields.
Predictor: Alex Wissner-Gross · ep#231 "Top AI News: Sonnet 4.6, Grok 4.2, Gemini 3 Deep Think, and OpenClaw | EP #231" · source
Prediction text
The solution wavefront will spread from math/coding to physics, chemistry, and other fields. | This is the beginning of the wavefront. This is the infection the contagion spreading from coding and math to physics and chemistry.
Verbatim quote
This is the beginning of the wavefront. This is the infection the contagion spreading from coding and math to physics and chemistry.
Predictor: Alex Wissner-Gross
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Milestone chain
- 2025-07-31hitAI achieves gold medal-level performance on 2025 IMOHow: Frontier LLM (Google Gemini Deep Think and/or OpenAI experimental model) scores >=35/42 (gold cutoff) on official 2025 International Mathematical Olympiad problems with verified evaluationSource: https://deepmind.google/blog/advanced-version-of-gemini-with-deep-think-officially-achieves-gold-medal-standard-at-the-international-mathematical-olympiad/conf 99%Notes: HIT — Both Google Gemini Deep Think and OpenAI achieved IMO 2025 gold medal performance, independently verified by IMO coordinators.
- 2025-12-31overdueAI receives gold-medal ratings on physics and chemistry olympiad written examsHow: Frontier model (Gemini Deep Think) achieves gold-medal-level ratings on International Physics Olympiad (IPhO) and International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO) written exams with public verificationSource: https://intuitionlabs.ai/articles/ai-reasoning-math-olympiad-imoconf 85%Notes: Reported by IntuitionLabs that Gemini Deep Think also received gold medal ratings on physics and chemistry olympiad written exams in 2025.
- 2026-06-01 → 2027-06-30pendingFrontier AI demonstrates measurable scientific research contribution in physics or chemistryHow: At least one peer-reviewed physics or chemistry paper credits a frontier LLM with novel result generation (not just literature review) in arXiv or Nature/ScienceSource: https://openai.com/index/frontierscience/conf 65%Notes: OpenAI's FrontierScience initiative explicitly evaluating model ability on scientific research tasks beyond olympiad benchmarks.
- 2026-06-01 → 2027-12-31pendingFrontier model scores >=85% on graduate-level physics and chemistry benchmarks (GPQA Diamond)How: Public model (OpenAI/Anthropic/Google) reports >=85% accuracy on GPQA Diamond physics and chemistry subsets in published technical report or model cardSource: Model technical reports (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind)conf 75%Notes: GPQA Diamond is the standard graduate-level physics/chemistry/biology benchmark; a primary measure of wavefront spread from coding/math.
- 2026-09-01 → 2027-12-31pendingWavefront spreads to biology / biomedical: AI co-authors notable drug-discovery or protein-design resultHow: Public announcement of at least one drug candidate, protein design, or materials discovery primarily attributed to a frontier LLM (not just AlphaFold-class specialist) in peer-reviewed venue or major lab press releaseSource: Industry tracking (Nature Biotech, Science, MIT Tech Review)conf 55%
- 2027-06-01 → 2027-12-31pendingBy 2027 mid-year, frontier AI surpasses human expert performance on majority of STEM olympiad-level domainsHow: Frontier model achieves gold/expert-equivalent on >=4 of 6 international olympiad domains (math, physics, chemistry, biology, informatics, linguistics) per published evaluationsSource: Olympiad organizers + frontier lab reportsconf 70%Notes: Aligns with prediction window 2027 mid-year for full wavefront spread across STEM.
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Edges that influence THIS node's belief
| Kind | Node | Their prob | P(c|s=T) | P(c|s=F) | Δ implied |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| killer | TK03 AI Regulatory Moratorium (EU/US Capability Freeze) | 10.0% | 0.050 | 0.500 | +0.059 |
| prereq | 234_012 Anthropic revenue will cross OpenAI revenue in middle of 202 — Peter Diamandis | 67.1% | 0.500 | 0.050 | -0.047 |
| killer | TK01 AGI Capability Plateau (2026-27 Training Stall) | 15.0% | 0.050 | 0.500 | +0.037 |
| prereq | SEM_042 2025 will be the definitive year that agentic systems finall — Kevin Weil | 73.8% | 0.500 | 0.050 | -0.018 |
| prereq | 235_002 Anthropic will exceed OpenAI in revenue this year (2026). — Dave Blundin | 74.6% | 0.500 | 0.050 | -0.014 |
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Predictions THIS node influences
| Kind | Node | Their prob | P(c|s=T) | P(c|s=F) | Δ implied |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| prereq | 241_043 ASI will arrive within 2 years to 5 years to this next decad — Peter Diamandis | 35.9% | 0.650 | 0.050 | -0.068 |
| prereq | CMQ_002 By 2028, AI systems will reach 'independent researcher' leve — Sam Altman | 31.4% | 0.550 | 0.050 | -0.063 |
| prereq | 235_030 Ray Kurzweil predicts Longevity Escape Velocity (LEV) by 203 — Ray Kurzweil | 39.2% | 0.750 | 0.050 | -0.061 |
| prereq | 232_055 We're exiting the industrial age permanently as recursive se — Peter Diamandis | 35.5% | 0.700 | 0.050 | -0.044 |
| prereq | SEM_034 True artificial general intelligence will be achieved betwee — Demis Hassabis | 28.7% | 0.550 | 0.050 | -0.036 |
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Prerequisites (8)
| Type | Pred | Title | Domain | Lag |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| prereq | 235_002 | Anthropic will exceed OpenAI in revenue this year (2026). | AI | — |
| prereq | SEM_008 | Training runs costing $10 billion for a single model will commence sometime in 2025. | AI | — |
| prereq | 234_012 | Anthropic revenue will cross OpenAI revenue in middle of 2026 | Markets/Stocks | — |
| prereq | SEM_012 | Nvidia quadrupled chip production output while only doubling human headcount — achieved by deploying AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code) across engineering. | AI/Manufacturing | — |
| prereq | SEM_042 | 2025 will be the definitive year that agentic systems finally hit the mainstream. | AI/Agents | — |
| killer | TK14 | Superbubble Pop (S&P 500 -40%, Moonshot Capital Evaporates) | — | — |
| killer | TK01 | AGI Capability Plateau (2026-27 Training Stall) | — | — |
| killer | TK03 | AI Regulatory Moratorium (EU/US Capability Freeze) | — | — |
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| Type | Pred | Title | Domain | Lag |
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| prereq | 235_030 | Ray Kurzweil predicts Longevity Escape Velocity (LEV) by 2033. | Biotech/Longevity | — |
| prereq | 232_055 | We're exiting the industrial age permanently as recursive self-improvement unfolds. | AI | — |
| prereq | 241_043 | ASI will arrive within 2 years to 5 years to this next decade | AI | — |
| prereq | CMQ_002 | By 2028, AI systems will reach 'independent researcher' level — driving autonomous scientific discoveries without human intervention. | AI | — |
| prereq | SEM_034 | True artificial general intelligence will be achieved between 2032 and 2042 — 'first we solve AI, then use AI to solve everything else'. | AI/AGI | — |
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