> they always veer in a wrong direction after a few steps
Arguably that's the case for humans too in the general case, as per the aphorism "Beware of a guy in a room" [0]. But as for AIs, the thing is that they're exponentially improving at this, such that according to METR, "The length of tasks that AI can do is doubling every 7 months"[1].
Even dumb humans learn to play and beat video games on their own, so humans don't fail on this. Some humans fail to update their world model based on what other people tell them or when they don't care, but basically every human can learn from their own direct experiences if they focus on it.
Arguably that's the case for humans too in the general case, as per the aphorism "Beware of a guy in a room" [0]. But as for AIs, the thing is that they're exponentially improving at this, such that according to METR, "The length of tasks that AI can do is doubling every 7 months"[1].
[0] https://medium.com/machine-words/a-guy-in-a-room-bbbe058645e...
[1] https://metr.org/blog/2025-03-19-measuring-ai-ability-to-com...