Stanford's Batzoglou flips on AI: "It looks like it just... works"
anshulkundaje · x · 2026-09-09
Stanford professor sbatzoglou, who previously dismissed scaling/ASI/RSI talk as fortune-telling rather than science, now says his skepticism cracked: "It looks like it just... works." When pressed on whether AI will cure all diseases in 5-10 years, the exchange captures a notable sentiment shift among longtime AI skeptics.
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