Pedro Domingos: AI's playbook is to ace benchmarks, declare victory, move on
pmddomingos · x · 2026-09-25
Pedro Domingos skewers the standard AI industry playbook: enter a field, ace a few benchmarks, declare victory, and move on—while leaving most of the field's real problems unsolved. A pointed critique of benchmark culture and the narrative that benchmark wins equal actual problem-solving.
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