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No. 348 | February 7th, 2025

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

The announcements from the AI world are now coming fast and furious.

OpenAl’s new Deep Research model can perform complex multistep reasoning tasks with access to the web. Will this replace research assistants in academia?

Tyler Cowen is also emphatic:

I have had it write a number of ten-page papers for me, each of them outstanding. I think of the quality as comparable to having a good PhD-level research assistant, and sending that person away with a task for a week or two, or maybe more.

Except Deep Research does the work in five or six minutes. And it does not seem to make errors, due to the quality of the embedded o3 model.

It seems it can cover just about any topic?

I asked for a ten-page paper explaining Ricardo’s theory of rent, and how it fits into his broader theory of distribution. It is a little long, but that was my fault, here is the result. I compared it to a number of other sources on line, and thought it was better, and so…