Abstraction is humans' last math edge over AI — and it may fall within two years
avt_im · x · 2026-09-09
The author argues abstraction is the only mathematical skill where humans still outperform frontier AI systems, but expects labs to build systems that nail it within a year or two. He ties abstraction to compression, suggesting humans excel at it precisely because our other cognitive abilities are weaker than today's AI.
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