What AI Cannot Do

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What AI Cannot Do

A public database of things AI still cannot reliably do. When someone proves one, it moves into What AI Can Do.

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AI cannot independently build a stable playable Chinese county-town GTA-style demo

AI can help generate code, assets, and local prototypes, but it still cannot independently deliver a playable GTA-style open-world slice with authentic Chinese county-town texture.

🟥 AI Cannot Do
Game Developmentgtacounty-townopen-world
2026-06-22林启17 Attempts0 Successes5
AI cannot design a fully coherent complex economic system

When multi-agent incentives, budget constraints, arbitrage paths, and long-term stability collide, AI designs often contradict themselves.

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Reasoningsimulationeconomicssystems
2026-06-08Mira Patel14 Attempts0 Successes18
AI cannot generate natural human micro-expressions

Video models can create dramatic expressions, but restrained, brief, asymmetric micro-expressions remain unstable.

🟥 AI Cannot Do
Video Generationhumanemotionvideo
2026-06-04Ada Chen19 Attempts0 Successes21
AI cannot reliably generate realistic cars in Chinese county towns

Image models often mix county roads, domestic car models, license plates, and worn vehicle details into plausible but incorrect scenes.

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Image Generationchinavehiclesphotorealism
2026-06-01林启28 Attempts0 Successes34