AGI Shifts Research Bottlenecks: From Problem Solving to Harness Engineering
jiaxinwen22 · x · 2026-07-30
The author points out in a discussion that AGI will alter the nature of scientific research. It will shift the bottleneck from solving research problems to harness engineering, which is also a much less interesting research problem.
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