🧠AI’s $100bn question: The scaling ceiling
LeCun points to four essential characteristics of human intelligence that current AI systems, including LLMs, can’t replicate: reasoning, planning, persistent memory, and understanding the physical world. He stresses that LLMs’ reliance on textual data severely limits their understanding of reality: “We’re easily fooled into thinking they are intel... See more
Azeem Azhar • 🧠AI’s $100bn question: The scaling ceiling
I’ve got bad news.
The AI cycle is over—for now.
I’ve been an unapologetic AI maximalist since the first time I tricked GPT-4 into writing a working Python back-test for a volatility strategy back in early 2023. I’m still convinced it will take the wider economy years—maybe decades—to fully digest the pr... See more
Adam Butlerx.comSam Altman asks: why are scaling laws a property of the universe?
Daniel Selsam says intelligence emerges from compression—and the universe’s knowledge is a fractal you can keep mining.
In other words, scaling laws keep working because important concepts are sparse but inexhaustible—and inte... See more
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