This robotics concept helps explain the jaggedness of frontier capabilities

AI models have advanced rapidly in fields like programming and math but have yet to transform many other professions significantly. A robotics concept called the sim-to-real gap explains why AI's impact is uneven: tasks with static environments, like walking, transfer well from simulation to reality, while complex interactions, like hammering, do not. This gap suggests AI-driven disruption in other fields may be slower and more limited than some expect.