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missedthecuelast Wednesday at 9:24 PM2 repliesview on HN

It synthesizes a more comprehensive report, using more sources, more varied sources, more data, and broader insights than a human analyst can produce in 1-2 days of research and writing.

I'm not confused about this. If you don't agree, I will assume it's probably because you've never employed a human to do similar work in the past. Because it's not particularly close. It's night and day. *Note that I'm not saying 20 minutes of deep research beats 9 months of investigative journalism with private interviews with primary sources or anything like that. I'm talking about asking an analyst on your team to do a deep dive into XYZ and have something on your desk tomorrow EOD.


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freejazzyesterday at 3:27 PM

Weird, I'm an attorney and no one is getting rid of associates in order to have LLMs do the research, no less so when they actually hallucinate sources (something associates wont do). I can't imagine that being significantly different in other domains.

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jrflowerslast Wednesday at 10:09 PM

> It synthesizes a more comprehensive report, using more sources, more varied sources, more data, and broader insights than a human analyst can produce in 1-2 days of research and writing.

> Note that I'm not saying 20 minutes of deep research beats 9 months of investigative journalism with private interviews with primary sources or anything like that.

I like the idea that AI is objectively better at doing analysis if you simply assume that it takes a person nine months to make a phone call