Why humans may still beat frontier LLMs at open-ended AI research
flowersslop · x · 2026-09-14
flowersslop argues that although LLMs know more than any human ever could, humans may still be better at frontier, open-ended AI research — possibly because evolution optimized humans against primal problems, a structure well suited to open-ended exploration. An opinion piece on capability trajectories.
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