Pedro Domingos: the worse your memory, the better LLMs seem to you
pmddomingos · x · 2026-10-10
A characteristically contrarian one-liner from AI researcher Pedro Domingos:
"The worse your memory, the better LLMs are for you, and the better you think they are."
The jab points at a real dynamic: people who don't retain the details of past model outputs are more easily impressed by LLMs, while those who remember previous answers and facts more readily notice repetition, errors, and hallucinations — a sharp footnote on why opinions about LLMs are so polarized.
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