AGI may come from 500,000 mediocre AI copies, not one god model

Developer mertdumenci argues future AI breakthroughs may come not from one all-knowing model but from deploying hundreds of thousands of mediocre copies, and imagines test-time compute as ten thousand instances sampling in parallel and influencing each other through a shared message board—a search process he finds more unsettling than any god model.

2026-09-09 ~ 2026-09-09 · 4 related posts

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