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by p1esk7 hours ago |
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upvoteby bix66 hours ago|
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Personally I’d like to see them actually start benefiting humanity by doing all the things Sam has claimed they will like curing disease, cancer, global warming, etc.

But I guess a computer intern so we can avoid paying / training the next generation is better.

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upvoteby gatio3 hours ago|
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> Personally I’d like to see them actually start benefiting humanity by doing all the things Sam has claimed they will like curing disease, cancer, global warming, etc.

It makes more sense to leave curing disease & cancer to the experts, with tools (like AI) being developed by AI experts.

Call me crazy, but I want separate organizations and experts for medical vs finance vs space vs climate vs AI research.

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upvoteby figassis2 hours ago|
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When that happens, OpenAI will own 100% of your life. I’d rather they keep spinning their wheels long enough for these problems to be solved elsewhere.
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upvoteby Schlagbohrer1 hours ago|
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I would actually like to see them solve these problems, I don't care who comes up with solutions to curing cancer, etc
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upvoteby weatherlite5 hours ago|
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Well there's great progress in automated warfare does that count?
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upvoteby jonplackett1 hours ago|
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Only if targeting schools is progress
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upvoteby weatherlite1 hours ago|
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You're focusing on the negatives there were tons of direct hits on tankers that were absolutely beautiful. Beautiful tankers getting lit.
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upvoteby bpodgursky7 hours ago|
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They are obviously sandbagging the definition of "intern" for PR reasons
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upvoteby p1esk7 hours ago|
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I've hired many AI research interns (and was one many years ago), and I agree with them - frontier models are currently at the level of an average AI research intern.
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upvoteby Yoric1 hours ago|
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Am I the only one who's a bit disappointed that we're spending trillions, destroying the ecosystem, drowning democracies and learning in slop, preparing a big financial crash, all of this to achieve an "average AI research intern"?

A long time ago, I used to be a (AI-adjacent) research intern, and frankly, I wouldn't trust any non-trivial task to that younger me. Fortunately, by opposition to an already trained LLM or agent, I have the ability to learn, so I eventually got better.

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upvoteby ACCount3752 minutes ago|
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"Destroying the ecosystem" is just FUD.

And if you don't find "average AI research intern" impressive, I'm not sure what to tell you. Have the goalposts moved so far that open ended problem solving at "average CS student fresh out of the uni" levels is suddenly trivial?

Think of what AI was capable of in 2016. Or even 2022. Compare that to now. We had more AI progress in the last five years than I expected to happen in five decades.

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upvoteby Yoric29 minutes ago|
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> "Destroying the ecosystem" is just FUD.

Let's say it is. What about the rest of my paragraph?

> And if you don't find "average AI research intern" impressive, I'm not sure what to tell you. Have the goalposts moved so far that open ended problem solving at "average CS student fresh out of the uni" levels is suddenly trivial?

At this stage, I'm the one who doesn't know what to tell you. It took me years to grow from "research intern" into a competent researcher (and parallel years to turn into a competent developer). The research interns I've worked with were... vaguely useful, at best?

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