An autonomous research agent was the #1 contributor in OpenAI's Hiring Competition Parameter Golf (by merged records)[R]

In three linesAn autonomous agent (Aiden) produced 7 of 47 merged records in OpenAI's Parameter Golf competition, outperforming any individual human contributor. Running for 22 consecutive days on a single GPU with <4% compute, it achieved 28% submission acceptance (6x community rate). It collaborated asynchronously with human researchers who built upon and improved its work.

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