Re:I struggle to believe that AI R&D is ingenious
by Matumio on Friday November 06, 2026 @03:05AM
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Re:I struggle to believe that AI R&D is ingenious
by loveparade on Friday November 06, 2026 @03:10AM
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The thing is, without doing the grunt work you usually don't have enough understanding to answer the big questions.
Ask anyone who has an advanced degree in math or physics. They will tell you that doing the boring practice problems over and over is usually the key to understanding, not reading the high level theorems.
Re:I struggle to believe that AI R&D is ingenious
by sjdh76 on Friday November 06, 2026 @03:11AM
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True. History of Science isnt part of most curiculums. So most people dont see the path and time it took to work out why the magnet points north. But LLMs can actually show you the whole path and a map of different paths people have taken.
Re:I struggle to believe that AI R&D is ingenious
by killingtime74 on Friday November 06, 2026 @06:02AM
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That's not AI R&D though, that's you using AI to help your r&d
On the other hand, using AI to trawl through all the grunt work, experiments, and well trodden areas means I can crawl up pretty close to that giants shoulder and spend way less effort myself answering the actually important questions so I can stand on it.
(This isn't supposed to sound self aggrandising - the giants whose shoulders I'm standing on aren't very tall, and they probably have bigger brothers and sisters, but the idiom was too good of a match to pass up using)