OpenAI's Noam Brown: models' research taste may surpass mine in 1-2 releases
haider1 · x · 2026-09-16
OpenAI research scientist Noam Brown says current models are still noticeably poor at research taste — a real gap remains today — but he wouldn't be surprised if, one or two model releases from now, they are better than him at it too. A direct assessment from a frontier lab's core researcher on how quickly models could match top humans at scientific judgment.
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