Pedro Domingos: AI is exhausting, I'll switch to a slow field — oh wait, math and physics
pmddomingos · x · 2026-11-07
Pedro Domingos, author of The Master Algorithm, jokes that AI moves too fast and he's tempted to switch to a field where nothing happens for decades — like math or physics — before catching himself: those fields are being transformed by AI too.
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