They’ll be able to automate ML research in the sense of coming up with experiments to try, and implementing those experiments, but never any new conceptual work.
I agree this seems unlikely. As a baseline, labs have thousands of capabilities researchers coming up with insights, and they could train the models to imitate them. There is also a path of RLVRing against the results of small scale experiments. It’s more expensive to collect data for research taste, but it doesn’t seem like a difference in kind to software engineering.
I agree this seems unlikely. As a baseline, labs have thousands of capabilities researchers coming up with insights, and they could train the models to imitate them. There is also a path of RLVRing against the results of small scale experiments. It’s more expensive to collect data for research taste, but it doesn’t seem like a difference in kind to software engineering.