I also hope we have something like this. But sadly, this is not going to work. The reason is this line from the article, which is so much harder that it looks:
> and a critic model filters the results for genuinely valuable ideas.
In fact, people have tryied this idea. And if you use a LLM or anything similar as the critic, the performance of the model actually degrades in this process. As the LLM tries too hard to satisfy the critic, and the critic itself is far from a good reasoner.
So the reason that we don't hear too much about this idea is not that nobody tried it. But that they tried, and it didn't work, and people are reluctant to publish about something which does not work.
> and a critic model filters the results for genuinely valuable ideas.
In fact, people have tryied this idea. And if you use a LLM or anything similar as the critic, the performance of the model actually degrades in this process. As the LLM tries too hard to satisfy the critic, and the critic itself is far from a good reasoner.
So the reason that we don't hear too much about this idea is not that nobody tried it. But that they tried, and it didn't work, and people are reluctant to publish about something which does not work.