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AI systems' rapid progress on specific tasks that humans find impressive is unsurprising, given that evolution did not strongly optimize humans for those tasks.

Tamay Besiroglu · AGI is still 30 years away — Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu · 17 Apr 2025

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“And so it's not surprising that on these specific tasks that, you know, humans find very impressive when other humans are able to do it, that AI systems are able to make a lot of fast progress.”
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