{"id":183877,"date":"2026-02-02T14:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T19:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/02\/smart-enough-to-do-math-dumb-enough-to-fail-the-hunt-for-a-better-ai-test\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T14:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T19:30:09","slug":"smart-enough-to-do-math-dumb-enough-to-fail-the-hunt-for-a-better-ai-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/02\/smart-enough-to-do-math-dumb-enough-to-fail-the-hunt-for-a-better-ai-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart Enough to Do Math, Dumb Enough to Fail: The Hunt for a Better AI Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hai.stanford.edu\/news\/smart-enough-to-do-math-dumb-enough-to-fail-the-hunt-for-a-better-ai-test\">Smart Enough to Do Math, Dumb Enough to Fail: The Hunt for a Better AI Test<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hai.stanford.edu\/news\/smart-enough-to-do-math-dumb-enough-to-fail-the-hunt-for-a-better-ai-test\">https:\/\/hai.stanford.edu\/news\/smart-enough-to-do-math-dumb-enough-to-fail-the-hunt-for-a-better-ai-test<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-02 14:22:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"hai.stanford.edu\">hai.stanford.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A team of AI researchers, including Olawale &#8220;Wale&#8221; Salaudeen, Sanmi Koyejo, and Angelina Wang, held a workshop to discuss and debate better ways to measure AI&#8217;s innate capabilities and traits.<\/li>\n<li>They aimed to develop a field-wide effort to create a robust, accurate, and standard set of benchmarks to measure AI&#8217;s understanding.<\/li>\n<li>The workshop highlighted the need to move beyond assessing specific objective tasks and knowledge to evaluating AI&#8217;s underlying traits and capabilities.<\/li>\n<li>An &#8220;AI Construct Lexis&#8221; was proposed as a preliminary step to develop a database for AI traits, similar to the Cognitive Atlas for cognitive sciences.<\/li>\n<li>Workshop participants debated whether human concepts like reasoning could be applied to AI and identified incongruous declarations about AI&#8217;s capabilities, such as its creativity or intelligence, as &#8220;jingle fallacies.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The researchers emphasized the importance of understanding these tools to deploy safer, ethical, and more beneficial AI systems in real-world applications.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smart Enough to Do Math, Dumb Enough to Fail: The Hunt for a Better AI&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":183878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/hai.stanford.edu\/assets\/images\/benchmarks-image-illustration.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183877"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183879,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183877\/revisions\/183879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}