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Recent weeks have made it clear that AI excels at solving research problems. How good is it at proposing *interesting* research problems? Thanks to the ratings of 29 experts across math, stats, CS, physics, we found 1/3 were interesting, and we fully expect this to improve. This raises important questions about the desired relationship between {humans,AI} in {academia,industry}...

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