AI researcher: frontier models are appallingly bad at end-to-end scientific research
andrewgwils · x · 2026-09-06
AI researcher Andrew White argues that despite impressive progress, current AI systems are appallingly poor at conducting end-to-end scientific research. He details the experiment in the follow-up posts of this thread.
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