Chess has 1000x human skill gaps; object detection doesn't—and that explains AI progress
anpaure · x · 2026-11-11
anpaure offers a concrete example: chess shows a 1000x skill gap between humans, but no human can be 1000x better than another at object detection—evolution made us all extremely good at it.
The implication: lower variance across humans means we're better optimized for learning that skill, supporting the heuristic that AI automates tasks where human performance varies widely.
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