capabilities overhang

prinz ✔️ @deredleritt3r — 14h If you can train an AI to be better than the best lawyers at legal research (non-verifiable task BTW), you can train an AI to do just about anything that does not involve the physical world. Moreover, many things that people assume are very hard for AI may, in fact, already be quite easy for AI. It's just that no one has tried throwing AI at these things in earnest; the capabilities overhang is real. > QUOTED: Dwarkesh Patel ✔️ @dwarkesh_sp — 17h > Here's a question I find confusing and interesting and which actually tells us a lot about the nature of current AI progress: > Why has progress on computer use been so ...