Brad Neuberg: AI outputs shouldn't be 'alien black boxes' — evals should reward elegance
bradneuberg · x · 2026-10-19
AI practitioner Brad Neuberg argues the problem is on the humans: many practitioners accept AI-produced systems as tangled alien black boxes.
- Core claim: complicated AI solutions — whether code or math proofs — shouldn't be accepted; solutions should be parsimonious, elegant, and explainable (an intuitive Occam's Razor).
- Proposal: perhaps we need better evals (cc @fchollet) that prioritize not just breakthroughs but also legibility, elegance, and explainability.
- A replyer asks whether better training data could fix this, or whether the issue runs deeper.
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