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Re:How scientists are using Claude to accelerate research an... by red75prime on Sunday January 18, 2026 @01:20AM (#46665277)
> large language models are fundamentally not meant for tasks of this nature

There should be some research results showing their fundamental limitations. As opposed to empirical observations. Can you point at them?

What about VLMs, VLAs, LMMs?

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Re:How scientists are using Claude to accelerate research an... by utopiah on Sunday January 18, 2026 @01:37AM (#46665349)
Old "agged Technological Frontier" but explains a bit the challenge https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=64700 namely... it's hard and the lack of reproducibility (models getting inaccessible to researcher quickly) makes this kind of studies very challenging.
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Re:How scientists are using Claude to accelerate research an... by red75prime on Sunday January 18, 2026 @01:54AM (#46665417)
That is an old empirical study. jadenpeterson was talking about some fundamental limitations of LLMs.
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