Pedro Domingos: Only astronomy has bigger numbers than AI these days
pmddomingos · x · 2026-09-15
Pedro Domingos, UW professor and founder of Tasks, quipped: "The only field left with bigger numbers than AI is astronomy" — a jab at runaway figures in AI, from trillion-parameter claims to billion-dollar funding rounds.
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