AI’s intelligence frontier is jagged, and humans plus AI may be superhuman
srchvrs · x · 2026-07-21
The author argues that AI capability is a jagged frontier: some tasks are easy for AI while others remain hard.
- They disagree with the idea that we will soon get a superhuman mathematician or software developer that beats humans on all tasks.
- The more likely path is gradual automation: arithmetic first, then simple symbolic computation such as theorem proving and indefinite integration, and now well-defined problems.
- They still doubt AI will solve long-horizon math and coding soon.
- Their bottom line: humans + AI will almost certainly become superhuman together, even if AI alone does not.
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