AI’s Worst Nightmare: A Test It Can’t Pass (Yet)

AI’s Worst Nightmare: A Test It Can’t Pass (Yet)
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In a world where AI aces PhD exams and outperforms experts, researchers have one last defense: creating a test so diabolically difficult that no AI can pass it.

Humanity’s Last Exam was designed to do just that. Until, inevitably, AI catches up and we have to move the goalposts again.

This brutal test, crafted by elite academics, throws 3,000 mind-bending questions at AI, spanning everything from rocket science to hummingbird anatomy.

  • AI bombed it; OpenAI’s o1 model led with a mere 8.3%.
  • The game won’t last as experts predict AI will surpass 50% by year’s end.
  • Beyond exams, AI’s real test will be solving problems we can’t, like math theorems and scientific discoveries.

AI will eventually surpass human intelligence, that is inevitable as I believe there is no upper limit to intelligence. The question, therefore, is how will we manage unlimited intelligence with a limited brain?

Read the full article on New York Times.

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