Andrej Karpathy posts the term jagged intelligence on X

Posted the term jagged intelligence on X — proposed it as a name for the counterintuitive fact that state-of-the-art LLMs can solve complex math problems yet fail at very simple ones

Why it matters

Gave a name to the gap between benchmark scores and reliability in real use. Salesforce adopted it as a formal research agenda and built the SIMPLE benchmark, and Sundar Pichai riffed on it as AJI

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Pressmarktechpost.comhttps://www.marktechpost.com/2024/08/11/andrej-karpathy-coined-a-new-term-jagged-intelligence-understanding-the-inconsistencies-in-advanced-ai/

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