Jagged Intelligence

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Hassabis: Fixing AI reasoning gaps may only require one or two tweaks
“So there's just sort of huge gaps, I think, still, but it may only be one or two tweaks that are required to fix those kind of gaps, just to be clear, but I think that's pretty, pretty obvious there are there, and that's why you get this kind of jagged intelli…”
Demis Hassabis Apr 29, 2026 ▶ 14:49 Demis Hassabis: Agents, AGI & The Next Big Scientific Breakthrough · Y Combinator
20VC Insight
Hassabis: Current AI exhibits 'jagged intelligence' with surprising basic failure points
“So, you know, I sometimes call these systems jagged intelligences because they're really amazing at certain things when you pose the question in a certain way. But if you pose a question in a slightly different way, they can actually still fail at quite elemen…”
Demis Hassabis Apr 7, 2026 ▶ 8:37 Demis Hassabis: Why AGI is Bigger than the Industrial Revolution & Where Are The Bottlenecks in AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
MAD Insight
Jagged intelligence in AI is a structural flaw, not a patchable bug
“Not easy to pinpoint like specific things, but again, like, you know, this is just like my personal opinion and maybe I have colleagues and like the other people like sharing this with me, but I think we're underestimating how hard like jagged intelligence is …”
Mostafa Dehghani Apr 2, 2026 ▶ 54:59 AI is Already Building AI — Google DeepMind’s Mostafa Dehghani
LLMs display jagged intelligence with superhuman skill alongside basic errors
“They display jagged intelligence, so they're going to be superhuman in some problem-solving domains, and then they're going to make mistakes that basically no human will make, like, you know, they will insist that 9.11 is greater than 9.9, or that there are tw…”
Andrej Karpathy Jun 19, 2025 ▶ 16:21 Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again) · Y Combinator
Wu: 'Jagged intelligence' ensures human-AI symbiosis remains necessary for foreseeable future
“One of the cool things about jagged intelligence, I'll just say, is it means that, that humans plus AI really is the way to go, at least for the foreseeable future, right? Because I think there are, certainly there are more and more things that we're seeing th…”
Scott Wu Jun 12, 2025 ▶ 19:41 From Math Prodigy to AI Genius: How Scott Wu Built Devin · Joe Lonsdale

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