This system could game us. Artificial intelligence is already outperforming humans at various intelligence-based activities ranging from chess to pattern recognition. Now, experts claim they’re a year away from beating “Humanity’s Last Exam” (HLE) — a supposedly unsolvable test that only our best and brightest can pass. “Model builders have really done a great job at improving these reasoning models,” Calvin Zhang, the research lead at Scale, the AI firm behind HLE, told The Times of London.