BLACKSBURG, Va., March 30 -- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University issued the following news release:

"Let's go back - way, way back to 2023." That was the invitation issued by OpenAI's vice president for science, Kevin Weil, during his opening remarks highlighting the rapid advances of large language models in research during a recent Virginia Tech Leaders+ event at the university's Academic Building One in Alexandria.

From 2023-26, Weil said, artificial intelligence (AI)-powered large language models have progressed from being able to garner a respectable score on the math portion of the SAT to being able to solve peer-review-research level problems in mathematics.

As that trajectory continues, how will AI not only gain p...