Boaz Barak: zero-shot driving by a general model echoes chess's path to superhuman
aran_nayebi · x · 2026-09-27
Boaz Barak highlights a general model driving zero-shot with no driving-specific training, noting the year-over-year gap is clear enough to project forward. He cites Terence Tao's 2024 quote comparing working with o1 to advising a mediocre grad student, versus models now routinely solving decades-old open math problems — the same trajectory chess AI followed from terrible to superhuman.
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