Pedro Domingos: If intelligence is one algorithm, we haven't found it yet
pmddomingos · x · 2026-10-23
AI researcher Pedro Domingos pushed back on the premise behind scaling: if intelligence were just one algorithm, discovering it would leave only the task of making more of it. "But we haven't discovered it yet," he argues — a terse critique of the assumption that scale alone leads to general intelligence.
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