Andrew Wilson pushes back on Jeff Clune: AI can linger in 'barely working' phase for decades
andrewgwils · x · 2026-09-27
Jeff Clune claimed that "once AI barely starts working, it will be superhuman very soon." Andrew G. Wilson disagrees, pointing out that problems like image recognition, speech recognition, and translation all sat in the "sort of working" phase for decades before reaching superhuman performance. The exchange captures a debate over whether the barely-working-to-superhuman transition is fast or historically slow.
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