Jane Street posed a puzzle to the audience where a ResNet neural network had all 96 layers shuffled, and solvers needed to recover the correct order using only model outputs and training data, without brute force (which is infeasible due to combinatorial explosion).

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Unidentified Speaker — Terence Tao – How the world’s top mathematician uses AI [Q8Fkpi18QXU]

Evidence Quote

You can't brute force this – there's more possible orderings than atoms in the universe.

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Terence Tao – How the world’s top mathematician uses AIDwarkesh Patel
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