Nate Silver: AI got great at shape-rotation tasks but stays mediocre at wordcel work
ajeya_cotra · x · 2026-09-18
Nate Silver argues the divide in opinions on AI capabilities comes from task types: AI has made major progress on shape-rotator (spatial/structured) tasks but remains mediocre at wordcel (language-heavy) work. People who only use it for writing tasks are more likely to ask "what's the hype about?" Ajeya Cotra reshared the take.
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