Data eval practitioner pushes back on AI2027 panic: the capability frontier is jagged, not imminent superintelligence
geoffwolfe · x · 2026-09-10
A data-evaluation practitioner responds to why the data world shrugs at AI2027 existential anxiety: model capabilities are accelerating but the frontier is jagged. Models are superhuman in highly formalized, verifiable domains like math, yet perform quite poorly in many other areas, with many capability gaps and failure modes still visible from the evaluation vantage point.
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