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AI research bots still miss obvious insights, critic says
What is I struggle to believe that AI R&D is ingenious?
A comment on LessWrong points out that several autonomous AI projects, building a Scrabble engine, an Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe bot, and a philosophy-contest wiki, fail at basic judgment. The models overlook key papers, run low-value experiments, and chase trivial directions that a human would discard.
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Developers betting on self-driving research pipelines should treat these warnings as a reminder to keep human oversight in the loop.