"Skeptics will be embarrassed again": AI progress doubters burned twice in 18 months
IgorCarron · x · 2026-09-24
cloneofsimo quips that "they aren't going to cure cancer" skeptics will struggle just as much as last year's "they won't solve millennium problems" crowd. Igor Carron adds that this kind of spectacular skepticism reversal has already happened twice in the past year and a half.
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