Surya Ganguli: AI wins on playing fields humans already built, not new ones
Zulfikar_Ramzan · x · 2026-11-10
Stanford's Surya Ganguli offers a pointed observation in reply to Kwabena/Fry: many historic intellectual breakthroughs came from humans creating entirely new intellectual playing fields, whereas recent AI wins occur inside rich, well-defined arenas whose rules were previously constructed by humans. A crisp framing of the gap between AI achievement and original human discovery.
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