Circular Confidence in AI Research
ziv_ravid · x · 2026-07-17
The author rants about a common mindset in AI research:
- There are always people who believe "this time we finally trained the model correctly," implying that all previous experiments were "completely wrong."
- They treat this recurring cycle of optimistic expectations almost as an absolute certainty, much like the unidirectional flow of time.
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