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How smart is today’s artificial intelligence, really?  Not in marketing terms, not in sci fi language, but in the sober light of difficult questions like… How many tendons attach to a tiny bone in a hummingbird’s tail?  Which syllables in a Biblical Hebrew verse are “closed” according to the latest specialist scholarship?  Those are not trivia questions; they are examples from “Humanity’s Last Exam,” a new benchmark that is reshaping how we think about AI progress.[1]

The benchmark comes from a

There’s at least one expert who believes that “the singularity,” the moment when artificial intelligence surpasses the control of humans; could be just a few years away.  That’s a lot shorter than current predictions regarding the timeline of AI dominance, especially considering that AI dominance is not exactly guaranteed in the first place.

Ben Goertzel, CEO of SingularityNET, who holds a Ph.D. from Temple University and has worked as a leader of Humanity+ and the Artificial General Intelligenc