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Failing to Understand the Exponential, Again

https://www.julian.ac/blog/2025/09/27/failing-to-understand-the-exponential-again/
11•lairv•1h ago

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loloquwowndueo•12m ago
This extrapolates based on a good set of data points to predict when AI will reach significant milestones like being able to “work on tasks for a full 8 hours” (estimates by 2026). Which is ok - but it bears keeping https://xkcd.com/605/ in mind when doing extrapolation.
gyomu•10m ago
> Instead, even a relatively conservative extrapolation of these trends suggests that 2026 will be a pivotal year for the widespread integration of AI into the economy:

> Models will be able to autonomously work for full days (8 working hours) by mid-2026. At least one model will match the performance of human experts across many industries before the end of 2026.

> By the end of 2027, models will frequently outperform experts on many tasks.

First commandment of tech hype: the pivotal, groundbreaking singularity is always just 1-2 years away.

I mean seriously, why is that? Even when people like OP try to be principled and use seemingly objective evaluation data, they find that the BIG big thing is 1-2 years away.

Self driving cars? 1-2 years away.

AR glasses replacing phones? 1-2 years away.

All of us living our life in the metaverse? 1-2 years away.

Again, I have to commend OP on putting in the work with the serious graphs, but there’s something more at play here.

Is it purely a matter of data cherry picking? Is it the unknowns unknowns leading to the data driven approaches being completely blind to their medium/long term limitations?

noiv•4m ago
> Again we can observe a similar trend, with the latest GPT-5 already astonishingly close to human performance:

I have issues with "human performance" as single data point in times where education keeps to excel in some countries and degrades in others.

How far away are we from saying, better than "X percent of humans" ?

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