Researcher: the foundation-model paradigm is still counterintuitive outside AI
jd_pressman · x · 2026-10-16
jdpressman argues that the foundation-model approach — train on everything, then tune or prompt for specific tasks — is genuinely unintuitive, true of AI in general before GPT-2 and still misunderstood today: he points to EEG papers that still don't get it.
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