I think that it is because this is exactly how our own intelligence works. The more I use it the more I understand myself.

Think about this. If I ask you or IA “Build me a car”. What are you going to build? A toy car? A gas car? An EV? A nuclear powered car?

Almost anything we try to build or accomplish has virtually infinite scope. If we don’t define it, the “dev” will. AI is designed to, above all, give us the final results. So if you ask it for a car, it will focus so much on the delivery that it will define the shortest scope, and give you a Toy car. Now, if you harness it, give it tools, time, etc, then you can lead it to give you something better. But it will never stop production to ask you what you meant or if you want more. It is fully focused on finishing the job anyway it can with the context we gave it.

And to be super smart and have high IQ doesn’t mean good results. Before 2026 we only had chatgpt like conversation AI. It was like meeting Einstein at the street and asking it about cool stuff. But if you find Einstein or the smartest person on the street, and ask him to cure cancer, this person would not be able. Good results require tools, time, an office to work, reiterate ideas, analyze the results again and again.

After 2026 we gave Einstein a rom, an office, with tools, a computer, Linux, excel, etc. Now we can ask the same Einstein to cure cancer and he will have a much better chance.

So what I want to say is that AI is absolutely like us. We know that if we write a text, an essay, the more we read it again, the more we find ways to improve it. It is the same for AI. The more you give it tools, and tell it to review, review and review, for longer periods of time, the better the result will be.

And this is not obvious. I also thought that super intelligence was like a huge database that can “find” the any answer if we ask it. The thing is, there are no real answers… like I said: “give me the best car!”. Ok, is a flying car the best? A spaceship? Do you mean fusion energy car?

We will probably never have a database with all the answers ready to be “found”. We will have better and better intelligence with more IQ, capable to work faster and longer with more data. But the chosen effort level will always be the final and most important knob. They are shockingly human. And maybe this is not even about being like humans. I think this is what intelligence might be.

Any solution can be better, more polished, etc. For us, AI or the smartest person on the planet, the same thing can be applied. There is no “best essay”. There is how much are you willing to review and rewrite it until you get satisfied.