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“PhD level science questions”?
According to whom?
Sam Altman, the undergrad dropout?
One thing is certain: what they are doing at OpenAI is certainly not “science” by any stretch of the word (not even freshman level)
To even call it “engineering” is a very long reach.
Tweaking an LLM whose inner workings they have close to (if not precisely) …
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“PhD level science questions”?
According to whom?
Sam Altman, the undergrad dropout?
One thing is certain: what they are doing at OpenAI is certainly not “science” by any stretch of the word (not even freshman level)
To even call it “engineering” is a very long reach.
Tweaking an LLM whose inner workings they have close to (if not precisely) zero understanding of is not science OR engineering, at least not to anyone who actually studied either of these beyond the junior high level.