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Current AI models cannot produce insights beyond human understanding, however impressive they seem
Drawn from what Ethan Mollick said
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What Ethan Mollick actually said
- Ethan Mollick Professor at Wharton studying how people actually use AI
You should remember that the best AIs can perform at the level of a very smart person on some tasks, but current models cannot provide miraculous insights beyond human understanding.
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Mollick says current models cannot produce insights beyond human understanding however impressive they look. Tao thinks this decade a model could propose a conjecture connecting two things nobody thought were related, with a real chance of being right. Mollick is describing today and Tao the next few years, so the two survive together — but only if something changes in between, and neither says what.
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