Awais Athar

Works on Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, and large datasets. Loves drinking tea and posting random pics on his blog.

[Awais Athar @awaisathar]

@sohailabid Ah so something like dukansaz, dukanistan or shopgah? Good luck!

[Awais Athar @awaisathar]

@sohailabid ہمیشہ دیر کر دیتا ہوں میں

https://t.co/TbwmV9fUMC

[Hamza Mudassir @hamzam1981]

Our work at Strategize Labs (@awaisathar ) featured at @INSEAD @INSEADKnowledge ! https://t.co/0sK7LL5lRr

[Hamza Mudassir @hamzam1981]

I’ve been revisiting the 2023 “Jagged Frontier” paper by @emollick and co‑authors. Their core point still holds: AI is uneven. Back then the frontier looked “creative but not precise” – great at writing, weak at maths and logic – so the smart money was to keep humans in the loop on anything brittle.

The authors also never claimed the frontier was fixed. The whole idea was that as models improved, different tasks would move from “outside” to “inside” the curve.

Two years and several model generations later, that’s exactly what’s happened. We had one of Strategize Labs’ long‑horizon agents, codenamed #Ada_Lovelace, re‑draw the jagged frontier curve against today’s frontier models (Gemini 3.0, Claude Opus 4.5, GPT‑5.1 reasoning variants). The big hole the paper focused on – the “math gap” – now looks mostly closed. On a lot of analytical work, these models are already past typical human performance, which is cool.

The jagged edge now shows up somewhere else: not in single tasks, but in processes. Chaining actions over hours or days, juggling tools, staying aligned with the original goal – that’s where things still break.

So the job isn’t to retire the Jagged Frontier idea, but to re‑map it: from “what can AI do?” to “over what horizon can we trust agents to stay on course?” If we get that right, agents start to look less like a replacement of human workers, and more like handing everyone an Iron Man suit.

P.S. Our agent identified more with GenZ than I had anticipated! @awaisathar

[Awais Athar @awaisathar]

@microMAF Awesome!
Pakistan Spelling Bee: bee-ilding bee-rilliant bachas 🫣

[Musharraf Ali Farooqi @microMAF]

Nothing more satisfying than building Pakistan's biggest education competition for both English and Urdu, in which children from across Pakistan and from all social backgrounds can participate and excel.

A 🧵 about Pakistan Spelling Bee (https://t.co/9NSODTdUo3)

[Awais Athar @awaisathar]

@Huk06 @microMAF @OpenAI @barbarikon Cultural = Political :)

I'll keep checking just in case. We need open corpora of all kinds :) We did publish a "culturally un-nuanced" UrduQA dataset last year ( more @ https://t.co/EWKG3HLN1t ) but we all know
اردو تو پاکستان میں بھی سوتیلی ہے، دوسروں کو کیا کہیں

[Awais Athar @awaisathar]

@Huk06 @microMAF @OpenAI @barbarikon Having said that, I noticed that Hinglish is included. Since it's supposed to be "culturally nuanced", I was hoping to take a look at the actual dataset and rubric criteria for potential bias but it's not available publicly (yet)

[Awais Athar @awaisathar]

@Huk06 @microMAF @OpenAI @barbarikon I have no internal news about this so saying "I can neither confirm nor deny" would be literally correct :)

[Hamza Mudassir @hamzam1981]

My talk at @INSEAD on self organising hive minds cracking hard problems in strategy. It was based on my work with @awaisathar and two other coauthors at @Cambridge_Uni and University of Manchester https://t.co/vEGZPF0A0W

[Awais Athar @awaisathar]

@yaserawan Bene Gesserit were the original Spice girls

[Awais Athar @awaisathar]

@zeerakahmed On another note, I hope someone opens a butchery named mutton-saz 🐐

[Awais Athar @awaisathar]

@zeerakahmed VIBE ALL THE APPS!
(But on your own machines)

https://t.co/4R5cDDiufK

[Awais Athar @awaisathar]

@hamzam1981 "You are a helpful AI assistant. Don't be the reason we end up on the news."

[Awais Athar @awaisathar]

@aliaftabsaeed تجارتی خبریں

[Awais Athar @awaisathar]

@sohailabid Might have someone in my network interested. Should I ask around or do you want to work on a techie solution. There might be a short research paper in there 😀

[Awais Athar @awaisathar]

Your IDE will soon face an ide-ntity crisis as it evolves from an Integrated Development Environment to an Independent Development Environment.

[Awais Athar @awaisathar]

@sohailabid جوان😔