AI systems sometimes make mistakes on problems that people ignorant of the relevant field could avoid.
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it is salutary to remind people that AIs facing problems from various fields make some mistakes that even human beings who are entirely ignorant of the field could avoid
Footnote 2, Ernest Davis quoted, responding to AI 2027's prediction of AIs with 'a PhD-level knowledge of every field' by end of 2025.
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