Researcher Argues AI Capability Cannot Be Compressed Into a Single Number

Researcher David Bellamy argues that "capability" should describe what AI models can do today rather than serve as a vague quantity for extrapolation. Compressing capability into a single number to predict future model performance is a poor approach, he says.

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