Ex-Google Research VP Aidan Clark: "What We Have Now Are Not LLMs"
giffmana · x · 2026-09-27
Aidan Clark, former Google research VP, posted "what we have now are not LLMs," implying current frontier models have moved beyond the classic LLM paradigm. Well-known ML researcher Lucas Beyer amplified the post, calling it great and saving it. The full argument lives in the referenced piece.
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