"Slapping words together": dev laments AI's power comes from corpus scale, not logic
burny_tech · x · 2026-09-12
The author riffs that if computers had become math gods via a logic breakthrough—an effective Entscheidungsproblem, a calculus ratiocinator, P=NP—he'd be thrilled. Instead, their power comes from the empirical efficacy of heuristically combining words, trained on gigantic text corpora (plus RL data, he concedes), which leaves him distraught about the path AI actually took.
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