Viral post lists five weeks of 'AI miracles' from flying cars to solved alignment, met with mockery
dbasch · x · 2026-10-17
dbasch quotes and mocks a viral list claiming that in just five weeks we got flying cars, AI solving a Millennium Math problem, a new AI-discovered antibiotic, 722 AI-written math papers, "a solution to AI alignment," Google cutting quantum errors 40×, and an offline Opus-level model. His sarcastic jab about wearing a mask on a 24-hour flight sums up the AI community's skepticism toward these weekly "miracle list" posts.
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