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Scott Aaronson is one of the best professors and researchers in this field in the world.

• H8crilA 3y ago
  And the test is actually rather easy. It's an undergraduate test.
  • jacquesm 3y ago
    It's probably not 'easy' for the average human out there. I would expect >> 90% of humanity to fail that test.
    • InitialLastName 3y ago
      I have highly technical graduate and undergraduate degrees (in CS-adjacent field) and a decade of experience doing software development part time, but no direct experience with quantum computing (or much beyond an undergraduate physics class and an intro CS class in terms of directly related study), and consider myself a better-than-average test-taker. I could get 1D, 1E, 1F and 1T by intuition, 1J by actual knowledge, 1P by tautology, and had roughly no shot at the open-ended questions.
      • jacquesm 3y ago
        > much beyond an undergraduate physics class and an intro CS class in terms of directly related study That's puts you in < 1% of the population right there.
        • InitialLastName 3y ago
          That was my point (in agreement with you): I have no shot, and I'm well into the 99th percentile for this test.
          • jacquesm 3y ago
            Right, forgive me I understood it the other way around.
• pclmulqdq 3y ago
  That doesn't mean anything about the quality of his courses or exams. Lots of world-class professors phone it in on their teaching responsibilities because they don't care. I had several of them in school - usually more prestigious professors had worse courses. I can guarantee you that ChatGPT cannot do anything that a quantum computing class prepares you to do, aside from passing this final. That makes it a bad test. ChatGPT, in a sense, is the police on that front.
  • famouswaffles 3y ago
    Oh, you can guarantee, huh? Wow, guess that settles it then.