> AI will probably be smarter than any single human next year.

Arguably that's already so. There's no clear single dimension for "smart"; even within exact sciences, I wouldn't know how to judge e.g. "Who was smarter, Einstein or Von Neumann?". But for any particular "smarts competition", especially if it's time limited, I'd expect Claude 4.5 Opus and Gemini 3 Pro to get higher scores than any single human.

So we are back to the original comment that generated this thread: why hasn't AI generated a new and better compression algorithm, for example?