'Intelligence turned out to be mostly statistics': the one-liner reframing the LLM debate
khademinori · x · 2026-10-31
A pithy reframing circulating in AI circles: it's not that statistics proved sufficient for intelligence — it's that intelligence itself turned out to be mostly statistics. The inverted framing captures why the LLM paradigm worked.
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