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Current frontier LLMs empower effectively anyone with limitless knowledge. Historically, if I wanted to hire an engineer to, say, create something like this I would have needed a multi-million dollar budget. Now, anyone with $200 (or less) can achieve it.

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You are vastly overestimating what has been achieved here.

This is something a couple of materials science grad students can do in limited time for poor compensation as well. The expensive budget is for the part that comes next.

Of course, "LLM solves quantum gravity and proves existence of God", "nah brah, that's easy brah any kid could have done this brah".

This is what you sound like. I also like how the goalposts keep moving on a daily basis, a year ago it was that LLMs can't even write a Hello World program without making an error, but now things like this are "so easy a minimum wage intern could do it."

It hasn't done that though.

Why hyperbolize when I am commenting on something it has actually done and the vastly exaggerated claims related to this?

Isn't there quite a bit of space between "so easy a minimum wage intern could do it" and your original claim that it would have cost millions of dollars to produce these results?

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