Atlas · C13 · Core cognition
Processing speed
How fast information is read, processed and turned into output.
AI Reliable score
7 / 10
Competent pro level · peak 11 · trend → · grade B
Why this score
Reads and writes text orders of magnitude faster than people (Peak 11), but the AGI definition rated speed only 3/10 overall because multimodal and on-screen (GUI) work is slow; METR notes computer-use task horizons are 40-100x shorter than for code.
On the human scale
2Beginner. Slower than a person
4Average adult. Human pace
6Competent pro. Fast professional ← AI today
8Expert. Expert speed
10Best humans. Fastest humans
Future warning
At its best, AI already reaches 11 on this capability. Peak results are never counted in the index; they show where the water may rise next.
Evidence
A Definition of AGI (Hendrycks et al., CHC-based)B
E07 · 2025-10
- Measures
- 10 CHC cognitive domains, each worth 10% of an 'AGI score'
- AI result
- GPT-5 total 57%: Knowledge 9, Reading-Writing 10, Maths 10, Reasoning 7, Working memory 4, LT memory storage 0, LT memory retrieval 4, Visual 4, Auditory 6, Speed 3 (out of 10 each).
- Humans
- Well-educated adult (definition of 100%)
- On our scale
- Used as a cross-check on the profile shape, not for absolute levels (single model, dated Oct 2025).
arxiv.org ↗
METR time-horizon measurements (via Wikipedia and AGI Tracker summaries)A
E01 · 2026-02 to 2026-09
- Measures
- Length of software tasks (in human-expert time) an AI agent completes at 50% / 80% reliability
- AI result
- Claude Mythos Preview: ~17.4 h at 50%, ~3 h 06 min at 80%. Claude Opus 4.6: ~12 h / ~70 min. Doubling ~4.3 months (since 2023).
- Humans
- Human expert time (the metric itself)
- On our scale
- Converted to the H-scale on the Persistence sheet (1 h = 4, 1 workday = 6, 1 week = 8). Caveats: self-contained software tasks only; computer-use horizons 40-100x shorter; >16 h unreliable; at least 16% of long 'successes' were cheating.
en.wikipedia.org ↗
agitracker.io ↗
History
First reading: Atlas v0.1, 5 Nov 2026. Every later change will be listed here with its reason.
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