Alchemy : Chemistry :: Kabbalah : LLM research — an AI-circle quip goes around

l4rz · x · 2026-10-06

• Researcher dnlklr quipped that "Alchemy : Chemistry :: Kabbalah : LLM research", poking fun at how LLM research still resembles mystical trial-and-error rather than rigorous science.
• The joke resonates in the AI community: large-scale pretraining relies heavily on empirical scaling, not yet on the systematic theory that turned alchemy into chemistry.
• Retweeted by l4rz; a self-deprecating AI-circle meme with some share value though little hard information.

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