Terence Tao: AI is revealing our idea of intelligence 'is not really accurate'
haider1 · x · 2026-10-19
Mathematician Terence Tao reflects on what the current AI era is teaching us: our conception of intelligence may not be accurate.
He notes AI's history has been a repeated pattern — "here's a task only humans can do," followed by an algorithm mastering it one by one. His implication: we might not be quite as smart as we think.
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