AI surpassing human performance

Recent breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence (AI) is seeing the technology surpass, or almost equal, human performance in a number of complex benchmark tests

AI PERFORMANCE RELATIVE TO THAT OF HUMANS (%) 

120
100
80
60
40 
20 
0

Area of performance better than human 
100% – Human baseline

Visual reasoning 
Image classification
Visual common sense reasoning
Medium level reading comprehension
Multitask language understanding
Competition level mathematics

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Sources: Sherwood, Measuring Trends in AI, 2024 report (Stanford University) © GRAPHIC NEWS