Terence Tao: the AI era shows our idea of intelligence isn't accurate
haider1 · x · 2026-10-19
Mathematician Terence Tao reflects that this era of AI is teaching us our notion of intelligence isn't really accurate. The history of AI has repeated one pattern: "here's a task only humans can do"—then an algorithm does it too. Maybe we're not quite as smart as we think.
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