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News of the day
1. OECD's new AI Capability Gap Index measures AI exposure across 879 occupations using nine human capability domains, guiding workforce planning and skilling. → Read more
2. Anthropic's Claude Mythos reportedly solves the Erdős unit-distance problem with a simple proof, showcasing AI's growing mathematical discovery capabilities. → Read more
3. New startup Trajectory, founded by ex-Google and Apple AI researchers, aims to build AI that continuously learns from user interactions, solving a major barrier to AI progress. → Read more
4. Stability AI launches Stable Audio 3, featuring fast latent diffusion models for stereo audio generation and editing at 44.1 kHz with variable lengths and inpainting. → Read more
Our take
Hi Dotikers!
The OECD has just published its "AI Capability Gap Index," an ambitious attempt to map exactly where AI is catching up with humans at work. The principle is straightforward: score 879 occupations across nine dimensions of human capability (language, social interaction, creativity, manipulation, metacognition, etc.) to measure the distance still separating machines from workers.
The results are both predictable and unsettling. On the predictable side, repetitive administrative tasks (data entry, billing, bookkeeping) are first in the firing line. On the more surprising side, creativity shows a tiny gap of 0.1, meaning AI already produces creative output almost indistinguishable from ours according to this index. At the other end of the spectrum, judges, surgeons and chief executives remain the most protected, which will shock no one, especially not the people who commissioned the study.
A small methodological detail worth pausing on: to score all 879 occupations, the OECD used ChatGPT, Claude, Mistral and Gemini. Asking LLMs to evaluate what LLMs are good at is a bit like asking the baker whether his bread is any good. The exercise still has value, but read it with a healthy dose of caution.
And then there's the physical reality catching up with the theoretical grid. Yesterday we were talking about Figure 03, which just clocked 200 hours of package sorting without a single hardware failure. On the OECD index, "Manipulation" showed a comfortable gap of 0.7. That number is aging in real time.
The index remains valuable as a snapshot of one moment. But between the report's release and the moment you read it, the picture has already moved. Use it as a compass, not as a road map.
Alex.
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