Comment by merlincorey
1 hour ago
The skill floor has gone down dramatically, but the skill ceiling is still quite high depending on the domain.
1 hour ago
The skill floor has gone down dramatically, but the skill ceiling is still quite high depending on the domain.
I'm not sure how true that is. When Claude made progress on the Riemann conjecture, here are the kind of prompts used:
> Jarred's input was mostly limited to sending Claude messages of encouragement (mostly variants of “keep going” or “believe in yourself”).2 This seems to have helped Claude overcome some initial skepticism that it could make meaningful progress.
It seems like the kind of prompts a high schooler could come up with. What kind of problems were you thinking of as high skill?
https://www.anthropic.com/research/riemann-zeta
The full transcript is here: https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/8a0d1add3c637b858a9a181e98c40e...