Researchers on AI disillusionment: move up a level and do what wasn't possible before
avt_im · x · 2026-09-14
A resonating exchange: one researcher admits seeing a great LLM answer revealed "my ideas are way less novel than they feel" and that AI would soon outthink him — but the disillusionment lasted two minutes, as he chose to "move up a level": think bigger thoughts, incorporate further-flung knowledge, ask hyper-specific questions. The original poster adds AI has been incredibly disruptive to his academic career in classical ML, and his response is to aim bigger — to do things never possible before AI.
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