Pedro Domingos: with equal data and compute, AI is not even close to the human brain
pmddomingos · x · 2026-11-12
Asked whether AI can do what the human brain does given the same amount of data and compute, prominent AI researcher and author of The Master Algorithm Pedro Domingos answered bluntly: "Not even close."
The terse take adds a skeptical voice to the ongoing debate over how quickly scaled models are closing the gap with human intelligence.
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