Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis warns that advanced AI systems exhibit "jagged intelligence," excelling in complex tasks like mathematical Olympiads while faltering on elementary problems. This inconsistency, stemming from missing reasoning and planning capabilities, poses a significant hurdle to achieving artificial general intelligence, requiring new benchmarks and methodologies to address.
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