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Can AI automate AI R&D yet?

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Outline · 132 paragraphs

  1. Introduction¶1
  2. Methodology¶4
  3. Task setup¶13
  4. Environment¶19
  5. Results¶26
  6. AI did not discover anything comparable to the original innovation¶27
  7. Agents made misleading claims about their work¶32
  8. Could scaling up spending improve AI results?¶36
  9. Even AI models that had seen the original paper struggled to match it¶40
  10. AI struggles at end-to-end AI algorithms R&D… for now¶45
  11. Appendix: evaluation details¶49
  12. Scoring¶50
  13. Prompting¶60