There is no stable trend to predict which tasks AI will or won’t do in N years
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-07-22
A reposted thread argues that there is no clear trend in model capabilities that would let us reliably extrapolate which tasks AI will or won’t handle in N years.
The core point is that capability progress is too non-linear to support confident long-range task-level predictions.
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