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1. shonenknifefan1 · 1790198625 · focus · HN ↗

   > While combing through the raw DNA sequence near the RT, the agent exclaimed: “[The DNA next to the RT] is spectacular: I can see by eye a tandem repeat array … that's a CRISPR-like … repeat array?!”

   I love that with AI discoveries, we can relive the discoveries from agent transcripts like this.

   I'm sort of imagining future histories involving notable AI events peppered with direct quotes like these.

   1. hatthew · 1790204802 · focus · HN ↗

      My guess is that in the near* future, reasoning will no longer happen in a way that can be neatly decoded as human language.

      *near meaning single digit years, which is far for AI I guess

      1. DennisP · 1790205435 · focus · HN ↗

         Rumor has it that OpenAI is already going that way. There's a technique of repeatedly looping through several neural layers that has the same effect as chain-of-thought, but without the efficiency loss of translating out to human-readable tokens, and some of OpenAI's statements about their latest model seem to fit well with that.

         1. ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 · 1790205653 · focus · HN ↗

            seems like a bad UX decision, unless it is somehow summarized at the end or something

            it doesn't seem necessary to read a full CoT exchange. rather a final graph of why a decision was made would be ideal for my usage.

            1. lionkor · 1790205854 · focus · HN ↗

               It's already impossible for end users to read the thinking output of OpenAI's models.

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