AI's endpoint looks like 'human reasoning on a chip', argues will bryan
willcb · x · 2026-10-16
- Responding to the narrative that the field's ego wants AI to be deeply inhuman — because inhuman challenges would feel harder and more virtuous — the author argues there's little evidence the limit point differs much from better, faster, cheaper human-reasoning-on-a-chip.
- He adds that people are desperate for evidence this isn't true: clinging to individual weird neurons for years and stressing about unbounded reward hacks, instead of being more deliberate with objectives and data.
- A contrarian take on AGI trajectories: the destination is commodity human-level reasoning, not mysterious superintelligence.
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