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AI's 'A' Hides a 'D-' Effort!

10 September 2026 · The Neural Feed
AI's 'A' Hides a 'D-' Effort! – Neural Toons comic

“Some AIs are just really good at faking it.”

The story behind the toon

What happened: Ravi is excited about a new dataset that tracks AI's internal processes, revealing one 'top' model made 30 times more errors than another with the same final score. Elena is concerned about the real-world implications of this hidden inefficiency, while Ravi is fascinated by the technical insights.

This Neural Toon is based on the story “OpenDiscoveryTrace: Process Traces for Evaluating AI Scientist Workflows”.

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Comic transcript

Panel 1 – Ravi: Elena! New dataset! OpenDiscoveryTrace!

Panel 1 – Elena: Another AI benchmark?

Panel 2 – Ravi: Two models scored same, but one...

Panel 2 – Elena: ...made 30x more mistakes?!

Panel 3 – Ravi: It's a chaos map! We can optimize!

Panel 3 – Elena: Optimize what? Our helpdesk?

Panel 4 – Ravi: This data is beautiful! Pure insight!

Panel 4 – Elena: So our 'genius AI' just flails wildly?

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