AI researcher: everyone claims AI speeds research, mine can't edit a spreadsheet
BlancheMinerva · x · 2026-10-16
Interpretability researcher Blanche Minerva highlights the gap between AI hype and reality: while everyone claims AI is massively accelerating research, her ChatGPT can't update a spreadsheet without breaking the formatting and changing conventions she'd used for 100+ rows. "How do I get the version that works?"
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