Reddit asks where AI is surprisingly bad, not just impressive
PROfil_Official · reddit · 2026-07-25
A Reddit thread asks what AI is surprisingly bad at—especially the things people expected it to ace.
- The poster argues that failures are more revealing than wins.
- The prompt is aimed at surfacing weird gaps, not just obvious limitations.
- It invites examples of tasks that look trivial to humans but still trip up models in practice.
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