Pedro Domingos: there's no singularity unless each AI generation finds bigger gains than the last
pmddomingos · x · 2026-09-03
Notable AI researcher Pedro Domingos offers a one-line rebuttal of the singularity: it requires each generation of AI to discover bigger improvements than the previous one — which, he argues, pretty much tells you there is no singularity. A sharp challenge to the recursive self-improvement assumption behind intelligence explosion narratives.
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