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The speaker judges Deep Research to be an adequate but not great researcher and says it cannot provide in-depth understanding of an issue, which requires doing the research oneself.
Scott Alexander · AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo · 3 Apr 2025
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“I think of maybe just because it's trendy as an agency or horizon failure like deep research is an okay researcher it's not a great researcher if you actually want like to understand an issue in depth you can't use deep research you got to do it on your own so if you think like I spend maybe”Play from 2:58:21Report a misattribution
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