Domingos claims Emily Bender's anti-ML stance stems from her manual-grammar career being made obsolete
pmddomingos · x · 2026-09-16
In his ongoing exchange with Nate Silver, Pedro Domingos says Emily Bender's opposition to machine learning is driven by ML making her career of manually encoding grammars irrelevant — she 'just can't face the fact that ML systems aren't stochastic parrots.' A sharp personal take on the motivations of AI's loudest critics, continuing his doomer-vs-wokes framing.
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