AI Researcher's Lament: What if AGI is Just Megatons of FP4 Matrix Multiplication?
francoisfleuret · x · 2026-08-03
François Fleuret humorously expresses his potential disappointment: if the ultimate 'god machine' (AGI) turns out to be built by gluing together Attention mechanisms, GRPO, and megatons of low-precision (fp4) matrix multiplications, he will be very disappointed. The post includes a picture of a clunky, makeshift wheelbarrow as a metaphor.
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