AI-skeptic vs. believer clash over whether Claude's discovery is actually novel
eperlste · x · 2026-09-24
The debate over Anthropic's Claude-led discovery continues. eperlste fires back: "This is no big deal, a grad student could have done it — then why didn't one?" accusing AI skeptics of wanting their cake and eating it too.
dvira clarifies: what's underwhelming is the gap between framing and demonstrated capability — the work matches what a trained bioinformatics PhD student would produce given the same instructions. AI doing it autonomously is valuable, but it doesn't show we can now make discoveries that were impossible before.
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