AI Agents as Universal Task Solvers — mentioned by js8

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 03:02:38 GMT

I recently came across this presentation https://youtu.be/QxkRf-xSfgI, and it changed my view of AI quite significantly. (There is also a paper https://arxiv.org/html/2510.12066v2 .) The fundamental idea is that "intelligence" really means trying to shorten the time to figure out something. So it's a tradeoff, not a quality. And AI agents are doing it. Therefore, if that perspective is right, the issues that the OP describes are inherent to intelligent agents. They will try to find shortcuts, because that's what they do, it's what makes them intelligent in the first place. People with ASD or…

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AI Agents as Universal Task Solvers — HN submission

Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:57:29 GMT

Can Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Solve Any Computable Task?

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AI Agents as Universal Task Solvers — mentioned by js8

AI Agents as Universal Task Solvers — HN submission