Ben Affleck's 'AI is just matrix multiplication' take gets roasted by AI insiders
Miles_Brundage · x · 2026-10-16
Ben Affleck argued AI is "simply matrix multiplication, linear algebra and floating point calculations" and predicting next tokens has nothing to do with thought or feeling. Former Anthropic researcher Rohit Krishnan quipped "there goes his MTS job at Anthropic," and ex-OpenAI policy chief Miles Brundage amplified the roast — a circulating AI-community moment.
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