Stanford's Batzoglou drops his AI skepticism: "It looks like it just... works"
s_batzoglou · x · 2026-09-09
Stanford professor sbatzoglou long dismissed scaling/ASI/RSI talk as fortune-telling instead of science, demanding a map of how new capabilities would be achieved. But he now concedes: "I was with you until recently. It looks like it just... works" — a notable sentiment shift from a longtime academic skeptic.
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