Amassing a PhD team is exactly what OpenAI did, dev notes in AI research debate
felpix_ · x · 2026-09-22
Continuing the X thread on whether ordinary users can prompt frontier models to solve natural science problems, felpix notes that assembling a team of PhD experts is exactly what OpenAI did—implying that domain expertise is a prerequisite for effectively using these models for frontier research.
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