Jeremy Howard: AI beating humans at nerdy tasks isn't a strong indicator of ASI
jeremyphoward · x · 2026-11-12
fast.ai founder Jeremy Howard responds to an OpenAI employee's excitement that "we just solved multiple millennium problems." He recalls people said much the same after Deep Blue beat Kasparov and Watson beat Jennings, arguing that a computer getting better than the best nerds at a nerdy thing is not a strong indicator that ASI is around the corner.
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