Pedro Domingos: 'AI is climbing the subgoal tree'
pmddomingos · x · 2026-11-01
Renowned AI researcher Pedro Domingos, author of The Master Algorithm, offers a one-line observation: 'AI is climbing the subgoal tree' — suggesting models are progressing up hierarchical goal structures toward more complex tasks.
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