forecast
Bottleneck to AI-assisted research is good ideas
AI will increasingly help research by suggesting fruitful ideas when asked, much like Copilot assists coding, but the bottleneck in research is good ideas and insights, which is precisely what neural nets could help with — though this won't necessarily let humans solve problems they couldn't solve before.
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Ilya SutskeverEvidence Quote
“you ask your descendant of ChatGPT... Can you suggest fruitful ideas I should try? And you would actually get fruitful ideas.”
Source
Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI Chief Scientist) — Why next-token prediction could surpass human intelligence— Dwarkesh Patel PodcastCreated: 6/13/2026, 3:26:51 AM
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