Not only by providing the correct SotA, but also noting that the graduate student, probably at an expensive University, was so "cheap" as not to buy the cheap tools for their research. Imagine physicists from the 1900s working without tools and not being able to do experiments because "we would have to buy radium so let's try with free iron that I have instead". "Radioactivity is not a thing".
Yes, totally, especially given this was written only a month ago!
The student referred me to a recent arXiv paper 2303.12712 [cs.CL] about GPT-4, which is apparently behind a paywall at the moment but does even better than the system he could use (https://chat.openai.com/).
I wonder the graduate student considered paying the $20 and/or asking Knuth to pay.
Not only by providing the correct SotA, but also noting that the graduate student, probably at an expensive University, was so "cheap" as not to buy the cheap tools for their research. Imagine physicists from the 1900s working without tools and not being able to do experiments because "we would have to buy radium so let's try with free iron that I have instead". "Radioactivity is not a thing".