Researcher Slams Mysticism Around LLMs and Missing Ablations

Researcher Rex Douglass criticized AI culture for demanding blind faith in proprietary architecture claims without ablation studies, arguing engineers have outpaced scientists and left narratives that could take decades to clean up.

2026-09-21 ~ 2026-09-22 · 2 related posts

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