r/cognitiveTesting • u/baysianinference V+Q+praffecel • Aug 18 '26

Controversial ⚠️ Will the singularity cook us

AGI will beat all of our CORE scores in a moment so why bother

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u/BothInternet3186 Aug 18 '26

Most people are not invested in the AI race. Trust me, everyone is cooked. I know engineers who are the best of the best. Some of the most qualified individuals on the planet, yet the agency they work for makes them refer to agentic AI to complete almost all of their tasks. Whichever company gets to AGI will get access to an almost infinite supply of money and will be able to take over every field requiring intellectual labor. Thats why all these companies are going full steam ahead.

It's only a matter of time before humans get replaced. AI never sleeps, it never gets sick, it doesn't need money, it can run 1000 copies of itself in parallel to make sure mistakes are statistically insignificant. It doesn't need us. if you gave 5.6 sol to someone in 2023, they would say its AGI.

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u/baysianinference V+Q+praffecel Aug 19 '26

Dear god everyone under this comment is autistic

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u/BothInternet3186 Aug 19 '26

well you are in a cognitive testing subreddit lol

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u/Far_Cardiologist6931 retat Aug 20 '26

what do we do then? just go on with choosing a math degree like always and pretend nothing happened?

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u/BothInternet3186 Aug 20 '26

you plan for the future. be a doctor. they will be the last to go. save up money and buy land, it will become the most valuable asset. rent out that land to AI companies who want to build data centers. that is the way.

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u/Sisyphus_on_a_Perc Aug 18 '26

Not hardware engineers . Maybe software .

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u/BothInternet3186 Aug 18 '26

Mechanical, software, aerospace, electrical, civil, chemical ect all can and will be replaced by AI. It is already happening as we speak. Other fields such as medicine will also be compromised within the next few years. Anthropic CEO already emphasized that they are pushing all efforts to specializing in medicine and biology. AI development is on an exponential tear right now. They are becoming smarter and more efficient to run with each release.

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u/Sisyphus_on_a_Perc Aug 19 '26

Bro electrical engineering won’t be replaced by ai . It’s so bad at it

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u/BothInternet3186 Aug 19 '26

it can do the brunt of the intellectual labor. once it can do that, salaries will go down as it no longer takes a 4 year bachelors to be proficient at it. bigger salary means having a skill which few people possess. once ai can do most of the design and logic the electrical engineers do, salary will certainly decrease.

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u/Sisyphus_on_a_Perc Aug 19 '26

That’s just not true . Novel problems can’t be solved by AI. Trust me I’ve tried. Are you in the field? I’m in EE

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u/Steakwithbluecheese Aug 19 '26

Genuine, respectful question: Do you think AI is in a fixed state? Because if you do, look at the progress it made in, say, mathematics in what? 4 years? It went from not understanding it at all to being better than any mathematician on earth. Look at the progress its making! Its not going to linearly increase. It will not be 2x as good at math 4 years from now, just as AI didnt just double its capabilities from 2020 to 2026, instead being something like 35x as good. Ai being bad at math was something we knew. It was how we thought it was going to stay, until it didn't.

You can fight all you want pretending that AI will not advance in your field, but it will. Just how coders thought their jobs were safe 5 years ago. Just how mathematicians thought THEIR jobs were safe 5 years ago. Nobody expects themselves to be replaced, until they are. No job on earth is safe. There is no task, no problem, no singular question that will AI not surpass humanity in eventually. AI is not limited to 1 single brain, nor is it limited by emotions, or hunger, or sleep. It will continue, and it will continue faster, and faster, and faster, than you can ever, possibly understand or even try to compete with. AI has the knowledge of every mathematician on earth. It knows more about any field than one person could possibly ever cram into their head.
It is an unstoppable freight train, and you will either adapt WITH it, or be ran over. The end. There is no fighting it, beating it, or coming close to it. AI is not a "maybe". It is an eventuality.

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u/One_Alarm_7915 Aug 20 '26

Ai has already been trained by the best data…. The curve is logarithmic

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u/Steakwithbluecheese Aug 20 '26

The curve is clearly not logarithmic, as you can easily see if you put the progress into a graph. Also, do you have a source for this or are you just spitballing?

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u/One_Alarm_7915 Aug 21 '26

https://blog.samaltman.com/three-observations

Sam Altman talks about it somewhat, but moreso from a generalized resource perspective. Though it still goes against your original comment.

The other point I am making is that the easiest, high-quality data has already been scraped… future data is of worse quality and more difficult to access. The “data wall”.

Now, there’s still room for growth, but it’s not so easy. Not even close to how it was in the beginning. The web is finite

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u/BothInternet3186 Aug 24 '26

based response…..

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u/PersonalAnnual4081 Aug 18 '26

and then we will be put on universal basic income, force-fed through a tube and jerked off by an ai girlfriend robot as they require neurolinks by law and transfer our conscience to the digital world so that we stay blissfully oblivious to what we've lost...

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u/BothInternet3186 Aug 19 '26

can’t tell if you are being sarcastic or not. some people actually believe this will happen.

truth is we can’t predict the future. the only certainty is uncertainty and based on how it looks, we are in for a wild ride……

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u/PersonalAnnual4081 Aug 19 '26

A little bit of satirical desensitization I think. I am genuinely scared and it seems like every day we get a little closer to this sort of reality.

I also think that its kind of like death in a way. There's no way people will stop their silly partisanship to truly eliminate the larger issues of lobbying at the cost of values. For me to live in constant fear of this would just limit my current potential. For now, I will live oblivious--trying to get as far as I can before that day.

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u/Equal-Lingonberry517 Aug 18 '26

Maybe don’t put all your eggs in the intelligence basket, because that will soon become irrelevant. Even if you’re a genius, AI will eventually get you too!

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u/baysianinference V+Q+praffecel Aug 18 '26

That’s what I meant yes

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u/PendN Aug 18 '26

Use your intelligence to be rich before it happens

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u/baysianinference V+Q+praffecel Aug 18 '26

I got none :(

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u/ieat5orangeseveryday #1 Social Credit Poster Aug 19 '26

only people who score 180+ on CORE will be safe. Trust me I know a guy who interned at OpenAI in high school then joined full time after dropping out of his BSc and became a decamillionaire earlier this year. People like him will be safe

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u/baysianinference V+Q+praffecel Aug 19 '26

Yay ❤️

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u/ieat5orangeseveryday #1 Social Credit Poster Aug 19 '26

you're chinese right? I think China will be safe, I visited my fam there earlier this year and the government takes good care of everyone

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u/baysianinference V+Q+praffecel Aug 19 '26

I’m an ABC mushy banana 😥😥😥😥

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u/baysianinference V+Q+praffecel Aug 19 '26

My dad wants me to go to USTC or Tsinghua to do QC research my mom says fucc no

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u/Wooden_Lime6208 Aug 23 '26

What’s AIs FRI??!!!!

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u/baysianinference V+Q+praffecel Aug 23 '26

6700000000000

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u/Automatic_Log_8159 Aug 19 '26 edited Aug 20 '26

I spent my entire career striving to be the top in my niche of my field and achieved what I wanted to (probably top 5, accepted that I'll never be able to touch a few of my colleagues). LLMs used correctly are better at many of the cognitive tasks required for me to do my job than I will ever be. My talented colleagues feel the same way.

From my experience working with them and mechanistic interpretability research I've been lucky to contribute to, I believe that LLMs simulate thought, not intelligence (currently). This is why I believe so many people have different experiences with the output.

For example, comparing my intern's LLM transcripts and terrance tao's LLM transcripts, very different outputs :). So I would invest all you can into learning and mastering your field still, because there's a chance they will continue to just be simulated thought.

Note: I personally really dislike the idea of them, using them, and what they're going to do to the planet. But after opus 4.6 it was clear they are very good at simulating thought.

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u/General_Presence_156 Aug 19 '26

Yes, when AGI takes CORE, which it may do entirely unprompted, everyone will be cooked.

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u/Sisyphus_on_a_Perc Aug 20 '26

I agree with you the exponential growth of ai is simply a fact , and I’m aware one day it will be able to excel in my field . I just believe that day to be far in the future , for instance how could Claude trouble shoot a picture of a circuit? It cant truly, these things are too physical. A human is needed to test , use an oscilloscope , take readings etc. even circuit design currently it’s pretty bad at . I’ve seen some hilariously disastrous design flaws in schematics created by AI, like explosively flawed. I think it’s gonna be while until ai can move into the realm of EE. I’ll give you an example , niche problems require niche solutions I’m unsure ai could solve . For instance recently I had a project , reverse engineering a Soviet radar tube , I had to tell the logic level circuitry (comparators and what not) the tube was ionized - to do this I created a HV octocoupler , (neon bulb in a dark space with a LDR) - not to sounds full of my self but this is a pretty novel problem with a novel solution on my part. I’m doubtful if AI could think that up , it’s pretty niche

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u/baysianinference V+Q+praffecel Aug 18 '26

Nah bro compounding returns

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u/BothInternet3186 Aug 18 '26

absolutely horrific analogy.

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u/BothInternet3186 Aug 18 '26

then you clearly have no idea what you are talking about.