Pedro Domingos: weak analogical reasoning is what LLMs do under the hood
pmddomingos · x · 2026-10-08
AI researcher Pedro Domingos jumped into an X spat, telling @SlateStarCodex not to gratuitously insult Melanie Mitchell because "weak analogical reasoning is what LLMs do under the hood — just ask Geoffrey Hinton," reigniting the debate over whether analogy is LLMs' core mechanism.
Related event: Domingos and Scott Alexander Debate AI Doom and LLM Goals(4 posts)→
More from AGI Musings
- Meta researcher Dimitris Papail: this is the best time ever to be a researcher — DimitrisPapail · 2026-10-08
- GPT's math results show credit diffusing across thousands: the age of heroes is ending — sandersted · 2026-10-08
- Anthropic Study: AI and Robots Can Already Cover 81% of U.S. Employment Tasks — Polymarket · 2026-10-08
- GPT's Math Wins Credit Thousands of Collaborators, Not One Mind — sandersted · 2026-10-08
- Reddit proposal: keep AGI from learning to code and use humans as the safety bottleneck — meira_xxx · 2026-10-08
- repligate mocks Paul Christiano's post-AGI vision: neither possible nor good — repligate · 2026-10-08