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5.6 Sol produces a new research paper in one shot (aifails.substack.com)
3 points by mjd 5 days ago
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Ignore the title of the blog itself (“Funny AI Fails”). I confirmed with the author that he wasn't kidding:

* He gave ChatGPT a single 300-word prompt describing an open problem in his area of expertise, game theory, and asked it to write a complete paper

* It thought for 90 minutes and wrote the paper without any guidance

* “If this had been an advanced undergraduate doing a semester-long independent study, I imagine it would have very easily been an A and I would have encouraged the student to work on it just a bit more to submit it for publication somewhere.”