AGI Frontier: AI Will Surpass Experts in Choosing Research Directions
zetalyrae · x · 2026-07-22
The author argues that mathematicians expecting to "collaborate" or "co-discover" with AGI are not taking the technology seriously enough.
The post suggests that AI will not only be better than humans at choosing research directions, but humans will also fail to understand the scientific frontier well enough to point out a direction for the AI.
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