Comment by siva7
5 hours ago
We have Ai that can solve any math problem or any technical problem. But we don't have AI that can write naturally like a human. Turns out the purest human intelligence is something no Ai could ever reach. We invented in the past century things like measuring intelligence with iq tests only to realise what kind of bullshit this idea turns out to be in 2026. Turns out we had the wrong mental model of what constitutes intelligence and built machines with super intelligence only in a very narrow sense of the term. We need to radically redefine our idea what human intelligence is.
Maybe. On the other hand, maybe the reason models aren't good at writing yet is because the labs don't think it's useful or profitable (yet) to focus on training models for writing prose.
I think this is it. early on, no one really know what the biggest potential for AI was, so the focus was on images, short video, and text, as those were the most obvious applications. Then in mid 2025 came the goliath of coding + math. It soon became obvious that AI being more like a smarter version of Mathematica was the future, not "the arts" .
>We have Ai that can solve any math problem or any technical problem.
Does, "How many p's are in raspberry?" count as a math problem? Because ChatGPT still returns an answer of '2'.
various open weight models now get this right by splitting the word (tokens) with hyphens or newlines
the new version of this is Jev on coin flips and dice rolls
> no Ai could ever reach
Mate we’ve only had AI for like 3 years. “Ever” is the wrong word to use here.
I don't think it's impossible. it's more like the necessary resources have not been invested in making truly human-sounding writing. Writing is much smaller market than coding. Anthropic and Open AI became so valuable from coding agents, not writing ability. Every firm is now using AI for coding. Or too early. But I believe it can be done.
I suspect the difficulty in writing is linked to the difficulty in architecting good, maintainable software. Sure the agents can sling code, but they lack so much when it comes to software development, which also involves a lot of human writing.