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That's the real problem! That healthcare costs are a goldmine for Big Pharma instead of being a cheap and widely available service. And, as someone said before, the huge amount of data it produces, would decrease the rate of false positives to zero in no time! And your arguments about hypochondriacs are very similar to those that were once given against teaching reading to all people!


> That's the real problem! That healthcare costs are a goldmine for Big Pharma instead of being a cheap and widely available service.

I thought we were railing against Big Hospital/Big Insurance here? They'd love a cheap diagnostic.


I would say it understands if given many variations of a problem statement, it always gives correct answer without fail. I have this complicated mirror question that only Deepseek and qwen3-max got right every time, still they only answered it correctly about a dozen times, so we're left with high probability, I guess.


I disagree with robotresearcher but I think this is also an absurd definition. By that definition there is no human, nor creature, that understands anything. Not just by nature of humans making mistakes, including experts, but I'd say this is even impossible. You need infinite precision and infinite variation here.

It turns "understanding" into a binary condition. Robotresearcher's does too, but I'm sure they would refine by saying that the level of understanding is directly proportional to task performance. But I still don't know how they'll address the issue of coverage, as ensuring tests have complete coverage is far from trivial (even harder when you want to differentiate from the training set, differentiating memorization).

I think you're right in trying to differentiate memorization from generalization, but your way to measure this is not robust enough. A fundamental characteristic of where I disagree from them is that memorization is not the same as understanding.


Isn't this just a reformulation of the Turing Test, with all the problems it entails?


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