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The only winning move is not to play

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by 8bitsrule

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"A new theoretical analysis ... provides evidence that large language models, such as ChatGPT, are mathematically constrained to a level of creativity comparable to an amateur human.... The study highlights that human creativity is not symmetrically distributed" - https://www.psypost.org/a-mathematical-ceiling-limits-genera...
URL of study: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jocb.70077

by Havoc

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> The executives who never cared about research in the first place?
Don’t think caring is high on the list of things that matter in this context. Progress and commercial incentives are unforgiving
Not playing is just going to relegate people to artisanal work and not sure artisanal research is even a thing.
I get the sentiment but this feels very much like an attempt to stand in the way of a tsunami and thinking you won’t get swept off your feet because of a principled stance

by doug_durham

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Isn't it "The only winning move is to do good work"? If non-AI aided work is superior then it should win out in the long run because companies that do that type of research will be able to make superior decisions and thus be rewarded in the market. The argument isn't really AI versus non-AI, it's quality work versus shoddy work. It is right to lose patience with people who submit shoddy work whatever the source.

by kromem

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Seems very strawmanned.
There's currently a bit of an 80/20 rule with AI where it does great automating 80% of an overlapping problem domain and chokes on it 20% of the time.
The idea of someone giving 100% of their work to Claude as in the examples is dumb. But so is someone doing 100% of the busywork themselves.
Don't waste your own time and your client's money for the sake of some nonsense purity ideal. Learn to thread the needle of changing times.
Cause they are gonna keep changing.

by legsrunny

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One of the all time worst introductory paragraphs to a blog post. LLMs might not be able to replace whatever you are doing, but they can surely write with more clarity.