François Fleuret: 'AI is cargo cult that works'
francoisfleuret · x · 2026-09-14
Former Meta research scientist François Fleuret distilled the debate over LLM capabilities into a memorable line: "AI is cargo cult that works." It came in response to a reply comparing "biased stochastic search that eventually hits target" to a PhD student, with the open question being why the bias transfers across tasks at all.
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