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Humanity’s Last Exam: The Test That Will Change Everything

Emad Dehnavi
3 min readFeb 17, 2025

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Imagine waking up one day and realizing that artificial intelligence is officially smarter than us. Not just in solving math problems or playing chess, but in every single aspect of human intelligence. Sounds like science fiction, right? Well, it might become reality sooner than we think.

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In January 2025, two American AI companies created a challenge like no other — a massive test set containing 3,000 questions across various subjects. The purpose? To see if an AI model can surpass human intelligence. They called it “Humanity’s Last Exam.”

The Meaning Behind the Test

If an AI model scores higher than humans on this exam, it means we’ve reached the milestone of AGI — Artificial General Intelligence. In simple terms, this is the moment AI stops being just a tool and starts thinking, reasoning, and understanding like a human — or even better.

As of February 3, the highest score an AI model has achieved is 26.6% accuracy. It’s still far from human-level intelligence, but the gap is closing. Experts believe it’s only a matter of time before an AI model passes the test.

For years, people have debated whether AI could ever truly become smarter than us. Many thought it was a distant dream, something that might happen centuries from…

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Emad Dehnavi
Emad Dehnavi

Written by Emad Dehnavi

With 8 years as a software engineer, I write about AI and technology in a simple way. My goal is to make these topics easy and interesting for everyone.

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