When Superintelligence Arrives, Will There Even Be a Second-Smartest AI?
rahul_watertech · reddit · 2026-10-21
A Reddit poster argues that once superintelligence arrives there may be no second-smartest AI: today distillation, fine-tuning and clever harnesses let weaker models catch up, but that stops working when the top model is smart enough — demand would route to the single best system and the gap compounds. Possible counterforces: price, speed, privacy, and local models that already make users accept dumber systems.
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