Scholar urges academics to benchmark frontier models first before proposing new methods
FinanceYF5 · x · 2026-09-18
Michael Black argues academic research should start by testing frontier LLMs on the problem, analyzing their failures, and only proposing new methods when a core insight survives the next model generation.
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