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Why Frontier AI Still Sees Like a Toddler, w/ Andrew Dai

aired Jun 17, 2026 · 42.0m
Signal
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High signal
confidence 0.99
Orig58.5
Actn100.0
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Dpth100.0
Clty49.5
Summary

An elementary school kid can beat all the frontier models.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of like, yeah, it's, including: If you have an elementary school kid that can beat any model, that seems to indicate we're not quite there yet, at least in the visual world.

Key takeaways
  1. 01An elementary school kid can beat all the frontier models
  2. 02If you have an elementary school kid that can beat any model, that seems to indicate we're not quite there yet, at least in the visual world
  3. 03And this is also at the level of which current frontier models can operate at
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