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Even after the steep progress of the past 3 months, it remains that AI performance is tied to task familiarity. In domains that can be densely sampled (via programmatic generation + verification), performance is effectively unbounded, and will keep increasing from current levels. In novel, unfamiliar domains, performance remains low and further progress still requires new ideas, not just more data and compute.

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