Pedro Domingos: swap "AI" for "interpolation" and doomer screeds fall apart
pmddomingos · x · 2026-09-14
Pedro Domingos mocks AI doomers: replace "AI" with "interpolation" in their screeds and the absurdity becomes obvious — implying LLMs are fundamentally statistical interpolation, and doom rhetoric inflates a mundane mechanism into an existential threat. Another salvo in the ongoing AI-doomer debate.
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