Vals AI RSI Index: Opus 5.5 Beats Human Baseline on One of Five Tasks, Pulling RSI Estimate to July 2027
ResultBackground2450 · reddit · 2026-09-23
A Reddit post shares the latest Vals AI RSI Index update: Opus 5.5 beat the published human baseline on one of five tasks, a first milestone for the index. As a result, the extrapolated date for full recursive self-improvement (RSI) shifted from August 2027 to July 2027. The index tracks frontier models' gaps versus human experts on professional tasks to estimate when AGI/RSI arrives.
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