Pedro Domingos Mocks AGI Hype: Is Copying Humans Really the Path?
pmddomingos · x · 2026-09-22
AI researcher Pedro Domingos posted a satirical fable poking at prevailing AGI narratives: his "Emperor of the Galaxy" laughs that humans really believe all it takes to achieve AGI is doing what humans can do.
It's a pointed jab at the popular view that replicating human-level benchmark performance and task ability amounts to a path to AGI — a notable skeptical voice against the scaling/imitation orthodoxy.
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