Data scientist debunks 'AI is growing' myth: it's just software

Data scientist Gerard Sans pushes back on anthropomorphic AI narratives, arguing training is just gradient descent adjusting token probability distributions and that AI is simply software—a statistical text sampler, not something that 'grows.'

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