AI researchers Jiaxin Wen and Herbie Bradley debate on X whether automated systems require taste for frontier AI research and software engineering problems
Wen says AI needs little taste for many problems.
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hmm, I think that the problems I'm listing are likely very hard to solve by automated research agents that haven't already fixed those problems
and in general my own experience is that taste is quite a significant element of research, especially given we're talking about some of the hardest challenges in frontier AI R&D
Jiaxin Wen@jiaxinwen22@herbiebradley look I'm not saying AIs have really good taste. I'm just saying it doesn't need much taste to solve these problems.
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