# Superintelligence, explained.

> Plain-English guides to where AI is heading, and a live explorer showing how fast AI is improving on five of the hardest tests.

## Guides

1. [What is superintelligence?](https://www.superintelligence.com.au/guides/what-is-superintelligence.md): What people mean by the word, and why it’s taken seriously.
2. [AI, AGI and ASI: the difference](https://www.superintelligence.com.au/guides/ai-agi-and-asi.md): Three terms that get mixed up constantly, sorted in one page.
3. [How AI progress is measured](https://www.superintelligence.com.au/guides/how-ai-progress-is-measured.md): Benchmarks, what they test, and why they stop being useful.
4. [Scaling, simply](https://www.superintelligence.com.au/guides/scaling-simply.md): Why more compute and data kept making models better.
5. [Alignment: keeping AI on our side](https://www.superintelligence.com.au/guides/alignment.md): The problem of getting powerful systems to do what we intend.
6. [Fast or slow takeoff?](https://www.superintelligence.com.au/guides/fast-or-slow-takeoff.md): The debate over how quickly AGI could become superintelligence.

## Benchmarks

- [GPQA Diamond](https://www.superintelligence.com.au/benchmarks/gpqa-diamond.md): Graduate-level biology, chemistry and physics questions that are hard to look up. Best score today 96%.
- [SWE-bench Verified](https://www.superintelligence.com.au/benchmarks/swe-bench-verified.md): Fixing real bugs in open-source Python projects so the tests pass. Best score today 84%.
- [FrontierMath](https://www.superintelligence.com.au/benchmarks/frontiermath.md): Unpublished research-level maths problems with answers a computer can check. Best score today 94%.
- [Humanity’s Last Exam](https://www.superintelligence.com.au/benchmarks/humanitys-last-exam.md): Thousands of expert questions across 100+ subjects, chosen to stump AI. Best score today 55%.
- [ARC-AGI-2](https://www.superintelligence.com.au/benchmarks/arc-agi-2.md): Visual grid puzzles that are easy for people and new to every model. Best score today 95%.

## Glossary

28 terms: https://www.superintelligence.com.au/glossary.md