Professor's Astra-ExtraHigh verdict: one hour to remove a third arm — 'it's not intelligent'
ValerioCapraro · x · 2026-09-16
Behavioral scientist Valerio Capraro says after a week with Astra-ExtraHigh it 'isn't really intelligent': it took him an hour of step-by-step guidance to remove a third arm from a figure it created. He calls claims about solving Navier-Stokes, Gromov and Erdős problems hype — millions in compute applied to known methods — while conceding it's powerful for mundane tasks.
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