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ASKING GOOD QUESTIONS IS HARDER THAN GIVING GREAT ANSWERS

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Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

While AI is making impressive progress in providing answers and aiding historical research tasks like translation and handwriting recognition, true intelligence lies in asking insightful and unexpected questions, a skill currently missing in AI assessments. Groundbreaking historical research, for example, begins with novel queries that challenge existing assumptions and reveal deeper understandings of the past.