Sam Altman: AI is now mostly smarter than our smartest scientists
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-11-03
Speaking at the ADIPEC opening ceremony in Abu Dhabi, Sam Altman said that at the start of this year AI was "mostly not as smart as our smartest scientist, and now it's mostly smarter than them." He added that AI went from mostly unable to do white-collar work to mostly capable of large parts of it — caveating that this is approximate, spiky, and not true in every respect. Full video available on the DWS News YouTube channel.
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