Late Interaction: frontier AI solving millennium problems while being dumb at 1000 things makes AGI look farther
lateinteraction · x · 2026-10-27
lateinteraction pushes back on 'it just solved a huge problem, therefore AGI' reasoning: public frontier AI is simply not that smart or reliable yet, and the next generation won't be fundamentally different. His confidence in near-term AGI/ASI actually drops every time today's frontier solves a huge human-scale problem, because the jaggedness is sobering — solving a millennium prize problem while being dumb at learning and adapting reshapes his map of the territory more than it upgrades his judgment of the vehicle.
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