An Apple-Picking Model of AI R&D

Thanks to Nate Rush, Thomas Kwa, Beth Barnes, Eli Lifland, Chris Ong, Basil Halperin, Tom Houlden, Parker Whitfill, Phil Trammell, & Andy Haupt for comments. An apple-picking model of AI R&D. Many people are talking about how AI is autonomously able to contribute to frontier R&D, yet it’s only picking low-hanging fruit: Andrej Karpathy , Terence Tao , Nathan Lambert , Ryan Greenblatt . In this…