Tom knows I'm a freelance writer and decided to give me the scoop. He's more interested in linguistics than he is in journalism.
replyPromoting your friends' work is hardly stealing their thunder. It's increasing their thunder!
replyIsn't it customary for the author of a post shared on HN to leave a comment on the thread?
replyI’m not referring to the parent comment: The post is not written by the author of the claimed breakthrough.
replyWhat thunder? Claude did the work and used a human to interface with experience and causality better.
replyClaude helped, it did not do the work. It would have taken Tom more time to crack on his own, and it would have been harder, but the key insights were Tom's not Claude's.
replyThe thunder is as per the headline. Assuming it passes review.
replyOne of the things I find weird with AI is how the dismissals of work that involve AI splits into two camps: like yours, saying the AI did the work while the human played no role and deserves no credit; and those saying the AI rips off its training data while the human using it played no role and deserves no credit.
I exist in both camps. Claude can’t launder human achievement into a different person. Claude stole it, but it’s still in Claude’s possession and is not transferable in any durable sense.
reply> Claude stole it, but it’s still in Claude’s possession and is not transferable in any durable sense.
replyNo human, individually or as a team, has been able to solve this to date.
To the extent this was Claude solving it itself and thus denying Di Mino any thunder, there was nobody to have stolen anything from. To the extent he has thunder to be stolen, it wasn't ever in Claude's possession.
Everything is a Remix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9RYuvPCQUA
replyEither all information is stolen, or none is. Can't have it both ways.