How far has AI
really come?

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The same AI can win a gold medal at the International Math Olympiad. Yet show it a clock on the wall: ask what time it is, and it gets it wrong about half the time. So how far has AI really come? Let's hand it a report card and go subject by subject. Start with its best subject. At the 2025 Math Olympiad: out of six hard problems, one AI solved five, enough for a gold medal.

Coding is another strong subject. One lab that specializes in testing AI: measures how long a job it can finish on its own. A model they tested last summer could finish, about half the time, a job that takes a programmer over two hours. That length has roughly doubled every seven months for years, and lately it's been growing even faster.

And more and more people use it. By mid-2026, over 700 million people in China had used this kind of AI: that's about one in every two. What they do most is ask it questions. So where are the weak spots? Subject one is that wall clock. People read it right nine times out of ten. The best AI, only half the time. Subject two: it doesn't have a good pair of hands yet. Send robots into real homes to do chores, and they succeed only about one time in eight.

Subject three: it often doesn't know what it doesn't know. When it's stuck: it sometimes makes up an answer with a straight face, and it sounds completely real. Lay the report card out, and you see a row of jagged teeth, high and low. Researchers call this jagged intelligence. The tall teeth stand above most people. The short ones fall below an ordinary person. And the tall ones keep growing, year after year.

So it's most like a new coworker who has read nearly every book. Wins gold on exams, writes in a flash. But misreads clocks: can't carry a box, and now and then makes things up. When you use it, remember one thing. Let it draft and brainstorm; that saves time. But check the key numbers and facts yourself. As for when the short teeth will catch up: even the researchers can't say. Your guess: will it learn to read a clock first, or to fold laundry?