Researcher Questions Whether AI R&D Is Truly Ingenious

In a blog post, Arjun Panickssery cites side projects including a Scrabble engine, an Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe bot and philosophy proof formalization, saying models show basic judgment flaws such as missing key papers or designing uninformative experiments, casting doubt on autonomous AI R&D ingenuity.

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