“Curve fitting our way to the singularity” turns AI hype into a meme
inductionheads · x · 2026-07-25
A one-line meme reads: “Curve fitting our way to the singularity.”
It satirizes the tendency to explain everything about AI progress with smooth extrapolation curves, as if the singularity were just another fitted trend line.
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