The Court of AI Capability
Can AI recognise emotions in faces at coarse-grained level?
⚖ Yes"After thoughtful deliberation, the jury found that current AI systems can already recognize emotions in faces at a coarse-grained level with impressive accuracy and scope, confirmi…"
Can AI beat the world's top humans at heads-up no-limit poker?
⚖ Yes"The jury, swayed by the dazzling performance of Pluribus and its successors, delivered a unanimous nod of approval, finding that AI has indeed mastered the bluff, the bet, and the …"
Can AI read handwriting in 50+ scripts?
⚖ Yes"With near-unanimity, the jury found the question answered in the affirmative: today’s machine eyes can decipher more scripts than many human scholars ever studied, and they do so w…"
Can AI write fan fiction in any author's voice?
⚖ Yes"The jury found the task well within the AI’s current capabilities, noting that today’s models can spin convincing fan fiction in another writer’s voice with barely a prompt to go o…"
Can AI predict the 3d structure of any protein from its amino acid sequence?
⚖ Yes"The jury delivered a unanimous verdict, convinced by decades of benchmarks and recent breakthroughs that AI has mastered the protein-folding courtroom."
Can AI generate a slide presentation from a one-paragraph brief?
⚖ Yes"The jury swiftly agreed that AI has reached the level of competence where a single paragraph can reliably erupt into a coherent slide presentation, citing real-world tools that per…"
Can AI defeat any human at chess via deep self-play?
⚖ Yes"After a brisk deliberation, the jury found the feat already achieved, with no dissent to note—AlphaZero and its kin have long since crowned themselves grandmaster without a human in sight."
Can AI beat top starcraft ii grandmasters at full-game pace?
⚖ Yes"The jury found, with unanimity and finality, that artificial intelligence has indeed conquered the digital battlefield, mastering the full StarCraft II experience at the highest hu…"
Can AI drive a car autonomously in highway and suburban traffic at scale?
⚖ Almost"After lively deliberation, the jury split between the thrill of the open road and the stillness of the parking brake, with one juror clinging to the promise of the road-tested pres…"
Can AI identify objects in photos at human-level accuracy?
⚖ Yes"After thorough deliberation, the jury agreed that today’s strongest image models can identify objects with accuracy rivaling human performance on standard tests."
Can AI compose a string quartet in classical-romantic style?
⚖ Almost"The jury found that while AI can draft the skeleton of a string quartet that nods toward classical-romantic traditions, it stumbles when asked to weave the living tissue of emotion…"
Can AI compose a piano nocturne in chopin's style?
⚖ Almost"The jury found the AI’s nocturne technically proficient but emotionally hollow, praising its mimicry of Chopin’s form while regretting its failure to breathe with human longing."
Can AI generate a photorealistic image from a text description?
⚖ Yes"With near-unanimous confidence, the jury found that modern text-to-image systems no longer merely hint at photorealism—they deliver it, day in and day out, across countless public platforms."
Can AI solve high-school math word problems with step-by-step explanations?
⚖ Yes"The jury swiftly reached consensus, finding that language models reliably break down high-school math word problems into clear, logical steps—exactly the kind of patient tutoring a…"
Can AI write working code in 50+ programming languages from natural-language prompts?
⚖ Yes"After ample deliberation, the jury found that today’s large language models can, with reasonable reliability, translate natural-language prompts into runnable code across fifty or …"
Can AI generate a movie poster from a script logline?
⚖ Yes"The jury needed look no further than the lobby of any cineplex to see their answer glow on the marquee."
Can AI generate animated short scenes from a screenplay?
⚖ Almost"The lone ALMOST juror reasoned that while artificial intelligence can conjure individual frames or fleeting moments with uncanny precision, stitching those snippets into fluid, coh…"
Can AI identify a song from a 5-second audio clip?
⚖ Yes"The jury found the matter settled with prompt precision: not a note out of place, not a beat misheard."
Can AI hold a multi-turn conversation that feels natural for ten minutes?
⚖ Yes"The jury found the AI convincingly capable of sustaining a natural, multi-turn conversation, praising its ability to retain context and respond in fluid, human-like exchanges over …"
Can AI recognize faces across years of aging?
⚖ Almost"The jury found the star witness credible in controlled demonstrations but balked at real-world wrinkles and shifting hairstyles, leaving long-term reliability unsolved."
Can AI translate text fluently between any pair of major languages?
⚖ Yes"The jury found the task squarely within AI’s current capabilities, celebrating how large language models now deliver smooth, idiomatic translations across dozens of high-resource tongues."
Can AI run a customer-support chat unsupervised for routine cases?
⚖ Yes"Having surveyed the roster of chatbots that already greet customers with polite, path-finding menus every hour of every day, the jurors concluded that routine customer-support tren…"
Can AI transcribe spoken english with 95%+ accuracy in clean audio?
⚖ Yes"The jury did not deliberate long, finding the evidence overwhelming and uncontested: modern speech-to-text systems reliably turn clear spoken English into text with accuracy that m…"
Can AI solve novel international math olympiad problems in some categories?
⚖ Almost"The jury grappled between admiration for AI’s mathematical prowess and skepticism over its ability to generalize across all Olympiad domains."
But the data is real.