Chamath slams long-horizon AI tasks: 'They simply do not work'
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-08-29
Chamath Palihapitiya harshly criticized the state of long-horizon AI tasks at the Stanford AI Club, calling them a 'joke' and stating they do not work despite benchmarks or long-running scripts. This reflects skepticism about current agent planning capabilities.
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