Economist Noah Smith argues current AIs achieve superintelligence by combining human-level reasoning with superior speed and memory, while Yann LeCun maintains they lag far behind human learning and common sense

People are realizing that AIs are nowhere near human intelligence and learning abilities. Yet they have become very useful by compensating for their lack of common sense, lack of understanding of reality, and limited reasoning and planning abilities, by the accumulation of enormous amounts of declarative knowledge.