> this stuff isn't making a qualitative leap into emergent anything.
The magical missing ingredient here is search. AlphaZero used search to surpass humans, and the whole Alpha family from DeepMind is surprisingly strong, but narrowly targeted. The AlphaProof model uses LLMs and LEAN to solve hard math problems. The same problem solving CoT data is being used by current reasoning models and they have much better results. The missing piece was search.
The magical missing ingredient here is search. AlphaZero used search to surpass humans, and the whole Alpha family from DeepMind is surprisingly strong, but narrowly targeted. The AlphaProof model uses LLMs and LEAN to solve hard math problems. The same problem solving CoT data is being used by current reasoning models and they have much better results. The missing piece was search.