I had a blast writing this blog post and learned a tremendous amount. I suspect that we will soon see a blizzard of papers where the researcher/author isn't just "assisted" by really smart AI models, but rather where the human author becomes more of a research assistant/facilitator! That is, the model itself would dictate the core direction the research should take, with some feedback and input from the human researcher to keep things on track and focused.
The human becomes more of a "token dispenser" and also facilitates cooperation between AI models from different labs (i.e., Claude 3.5 Sonnet and O1-Pro, which I had working together by the end of this).
If anyone reading this is an expert, I'd love to hear your take on whether these ideas have real merit. I suspect they do, since O1-Pro certainly thought so, and I would guess that it would be skeptical of ideas that it knew were generated by its arch-rival, Claude!