{
  "id": 11072489,
  "title": "The AI folks don't seem to understand intelligence",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/01/the-ai-folks-dont-seem-to-understand-intelligence-11072489",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-01T01:12:04.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Korea Times",
    "slug": "the-korea-times-koreatimes",
    "url": "https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/opinion/20261001/the-ai-folks-dont-seem-to-understand-intelligence"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Just three years after OpenAI claimed their models could excel at grade-school mathematics, the company proclaimed they had cracked the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem within 88 hours. This feat, which had perplexed humanity's most brilliant mathematicians since the 1930s, has fueled speculation that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes artificial intelligence (AI) could cure all diseases - a notion that has both inspired hope and instilled fear about the potential dangers of a malicious AI.\n\nAccording to scientists Melanie Mitchell and David Krakauer from the Santa Fe Institute, the prevailing wisdom in the AI community is \"Scale is all you need.\" In simpler terms, the larger the training sets and the more computational power available, the more proficient AI becomes. This perspective, which underpins OpenAI's ambitious vision of AI's exponential growth and the accompanying hopes and fears, is built on the unspoken assumption that intelligence alone is sufficient to tackle complex challenges, both beneficial and destructive.\n\nHowever, this assumption may be misguided. While Anthropic PBC's Claude AI model is already generating over 80% of the code merged by its engineers, this achievement does not necessarily imply that AI will automatically solve complex problems such as curing cancer or averting global catastrophe. The relationship between power and intelligence is not as straightforward as it might seem.",
  "summary": "Just three years after OpenAI said its models were good at grade-school math, the company announced they had solved the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem in 88 hours, something that had stumped humanity’s greatest mathematical minds since the 1930s. Project that trend forward and you see why OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman thinks artificial intelligence (AI) will cure all diseases…",
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      {
        "outlet": "The Korea Times",
        "title": "The AI folks don't seem to understand intelligence",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/01/the-ai-folks-dont-seem-to-understand-intelligence",
        "published": "2026-10-01T00:52:04.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}