Comment by skybrian

3 hours ago

Some people want quick results. Some people want it to keep searching for a new math proof overnight without giving up, and they have money to burn.

It seems like giving it a time limit or a budget in dollars would be clearer, though?

Or, keep searching until I come back to the computer and ask about progress.

The _Intelligence_ part of AGI should be able to guide the user through that without all the knobs.

  • The user has to express their desire somehow. Either in the chat text itself or with a simple toggle. Not sure which is more user friendly actually.

  • OpenAI tried auto-routing with the initial GPT-5 release and it was immediately clear why that was a bad idea.

  • intelligence is not omniscience though

    • Asking questions to clarify user intent is a very low bar for intelligence. A bar that all SOTA models fail consistently at though. (It's both funny and legit infuriating when Opus, after having made a dozen wild assumptions without checking with you, then comes back with a request for clarification on some mundane topic).