Business Insider says Altman’s singularity claim is dividing AI experts
romanyam · x · 2026-07-28
Business Insider says Sam Altman’s “the singularity is here” remark is drawing disagreement from other AI figures.
The piece quotes Ilya Yampolskiy arguing that current systems still depend on human-designed architectures, training infrastructure, objectives, and coordination, and that they have not shown sustained autonomous recursive self-improvement leading to an intelligence explosion.
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