AI technology is advancing at superhuman levels in capability but not yet in reliability; adding metacognition—the ability to step back and reason about how to think about a problem—will solve the erratic nature of current AI genius and is the key frontier beyond mere scaling.
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Bill GatesEvidence Quote
“this technology is in terms of its capability is and it will reach um even modulo reliability will reach superhuman levels we're not there today if you put in the um the reliability constraint a lot of the the new work is adding a level of metacognition that done properly will solve uh the sort of erratic nature”
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:21:59 PM
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