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Google Co-Scientist AI cracks superbug problem in two days! — because it had been fed the team’s previous paper with the answer in it (pivot-to-ai.com)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

aren't so-called AIs really just a computer version of the infinite monkey/ typewriter thought experiment?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 hours ago

No, the typewriters are supposed to be random, this is guided based on previous work, so a whole space of output becomes extremely unlikely (so without looking at math for it, those spaces would show up very rarely if you then ran the infinite monkey experiment infinite times).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 13 hours ago

It's like that but if they were guided towards answers that sound reasonably likely