'Lee Sedol time': researchers say AI now runs like a postdoc you can leave alone
IgorCarron · x · 2026-09-12
Reacting with 'Lee Sedol time' to French researcher Antoine Tilloy's remark: reasonable researchers must feel some enthusiasm about AI, but the worrying part of model progress is that 'our share of guidance is shrinking' — you barely need to steer it anymore, you can let it run like a postdoc. The poster invokes Lee Sedol as the sign that research may be approaching its own man-vs-machine turning point.
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