AI Surpasses Human Performance

AI has surpassed humans at a number of tasks and the rate at which humans are being surpassed at new tasks is increasing State-of-the-art AI performance on benchmarks, relative to human performance Handwriting recognition Speech recognition Image recognition Reading comprehension Language understanding Common sense completion Grade school math Code generation 100% Human performance = 100% 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018 2020 2022 For each benchmark, the maximally performing baseline reported in the benchmark paper is taken as the “starting point”, which is set at 0%. Human performance is set at 100%. Handwriting recognition = MNIST, Language understanding = GLUE, Image recognition = ImageNet, Reading comprehension = SQuAD 1.1, Reading comprehension = SQuAD 2.0, Speech recognition = Switchboard, Grade school math = GSK8k, Common sense completion = HellaSwag, Code generation = HumanEval. Chart: Will Henshall for TIME • Source: ContextualAI TIME

A line chart compares state-of-the-art AI performance with human performance across handwriting recognition, speech recognition, image recognition, reading comprehension, language understanding, common sense, grade-school math, and code generation. The joke is the alarming implication that AI is rapidly overtaking humans across an expanding range of abilities, making the image useful as a reaction to discussions about automation, artificial intelligence, or humans becoming obsolete.

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