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Is your argument that the quotes by the researchers in the article are not real?


What quotes? This is an AI summary that may or may not have summarized actual quotes from the researchers, but I don't see a single quote in this article, or a source.


Why are you commenting if you can't even take a few minutes to read this ? It's quite bizarre. There's a quote and repo for Cheeseman, and a paper for Biomni.


There is only one quote in the entire article, though:

> Cheeseman finds Claude consistently catches things he missed. “Every time I go through I’m like, I didn’t notice that one! And in each case, these are discoveries that we can understand and verify,” he says.

Pretty vague and not really quantifiable. You would think an article making a bold claim would contain more than a single, hand-wavy quote from an actual scientist.


>Pretty vague and not really quantifiable. You would think an article making a bold claim would contain more than a single, hand-wavy quote from an actual scientist.

Why? What purpose would quotes serve better than a paper with numbers and code? Just seems like nitpicking here. The article could have gone without a single quote (or had several more) and it wouldn't really change anything. And that quote is not really vague in the context of the article.


The point is to look at who is making a claim and asking what they hope to gain from it. This is orthogonal to what the thing is, really. It’s just basic skepticism.

Even if the article is accurate, it still makes sense to question the motives of the publisher. Especially if they’re selling a product.


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Most people aren't software developers. The HN audience can benefit from LLMs in ways that many people don't value.


Are you accusing Anthropic of hallucinating an MIT lab under the MIT domain? I mean they literally link to it https://cheesemanlab.wi.mit.edu/


And if you go to that site, the researchers say nothing about using Claude, or any LLMs for that matter.


Honestly, it doesn't even seem they read the article, just came in, saw it was pro-AI, and commented.


You know things have shifted a gear when people just start flat out denying reality.




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