Pedro Domingos coins 'Dario's law': compute needed for AI also grows exponentially
pmddomingos · x · 2026-11-12
AI scholar Pedro Domingos offered a tidy aphorism: Moore's law says available compute grows exponentially, while "Dario's law" (nodding to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei) says the compute required to train frontier models grows exponentially too — an exponential race with unclear outcome.
The one-liner is a concise skewer of the current AI compute arms race and drew wide circulation on X.
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