DeepMind veteran publicly calls out ex-colleague for claiming ignorance of industry progress
docmilanfar · x · 2026-10-13
In a public spat, docmilanfar calls out @minilek for claiming he had no idea how advanced the industry was until recently — despite five years working part-time at Google DeepMind. "If you had no sense of how advanced things are across the industry, maybe you were collecting a paycheck without paying attention." A pointed AI-circle drama about whether insiders truly grasp frontier progress.
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