AI circle slams Eliezer Yudkowsky over neural net doubts and pretraining misunderstanding
inductionheads · x · 2026-10-05
X users are criticizing Eliezer Yudkowsky ("Yud"), arguing he catastrophically failed to develop AI, doubted neural nets would work, and seemingly believes pretraining involves an LLM literally reading text. The quote-tweet author says they expected more rigorous thinking from him, fueling ongoing AI-circle drama around the safety commentator.
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