Researcher's personal benchmark: can AI find a story he read once a decade ago?
QuintinPope5 · x · 2026-10-15
tracewoodgrains proposed a personal benchmark: the first AI model (or human) that can find the story he read once and has spent a decade trying to rediscover — his "white whale". He doesn't expect Opus 5.5 to pass. Follow-up discussion notes the story indexes people by type, lamenting relationships that can't hold latent variables beyond participant types.
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