Pedro Domingos: ML moves a million times faster than evolution, so AGI is millennia away
pmddomingos · x · 2026-09-25
ML researcher Pedro Domingos posted a contrarian take: machine learning progresses a million times faster than evolution, which by his arithmetic means reaching AGI would take thousands of years. The deliberately provocative framing signals his skepticism toward current scaling-based timelines, standing in sharp contrast to mainstream predictions of AGI within years.
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