Pedro Domingos mocks LLM reasoning: still CoT and brute-force compute a decade later
pmddomingos · x · 2026-11-04
AI researcher Pedro Domingos uses a time-traveler-from-2027 skit to criticize today's AI paradigm: ten years on, model reasoning still relies on what he calls a "horrible kludge" — Chain-of-Thought plus RL — and advanced math is solved only by throwing insane amounts of compute at problems. A pointed continuation of his long-standing skepticism toward the dominant scaling paradigm.
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