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Pedro Domingos

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Professor of computer science at UW and author of 'The Master Algorithm' and '2040'. Into machine learning, AI, and anything that makes me curious.

Seattle, WA

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Joined July 2015

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28 days

I asked Ron Howard why AI is always the bad guy in sci-fi movies, and he said "because it's the easy way to tell a story. If you want something different, write it." So I did:

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2040: A Silicon Valley Satire

When AI and wokeism collide, hilarity ensues. This is the story of the 2040 presidential election, in which an AI faces off against a Native American chief and the fate of America hangs in the bala…

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America innovates, China replicates, Europe regulates.

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In the last 30 years, America has produced seven trillion-dollar companies, while Europe has not produced a single one worth more than $100B.

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All of linear algebra in one diagram:

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The demand for non-woke education is skyrocketing. Who will meet it?

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We live in a time when the president of Harvard is a serial plagiarist and 700 of its faculty think that’s OK.

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What the f*** is wrong with you, @OpenAI ?

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The anti-woke underground in academia is growing.

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For girls there’s the entire education system. For boys there’s Jordan Peterson.

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San Francisco is dying.

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Average temperatures by month instead of year, and suddenly the climate crisis looks like a joke.

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Prompt engineer could be the shortest-lived occupation in history.

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The Indian government takes the lead in the race to the stupidity singularity.

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One of the saddest things I've learned recently: students deciding against getting a PhD because they can't take the political correctness of academia any more.

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Crypto-currencies are everything you don’t understand about money combined with everything you don’t understand about computers. (John Oliver)

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Machine learning consumes 75% of Google's computing power.

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America and China produce goods. Europe produces regulations.

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Nvidia now makes more money from AI than from gaming.

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Career paths in AI: Good at math: learning theory Good at GPU programming: deep learning Good at data wrangling: data science None of the above: AI ethics

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Greatest textbooks of all time (1/2): Feynman, "The Feynman Lectures on Physics" Pauling, "General Chemistry" Samuelson, "Economics" Russell, "A History of Western Philosophy" Knuth, "The Art of Computer Programming"

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Steve Ballmer’s net worth is about to overtake Bill Gates’s, because he held on to his Microsoft stock and Bill didn’t.

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A 2021 sequel to "The Matrix" should really be called "The Tensor".

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OpenAI is the Yahoo of AI.

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Step 1: Sundar Pichai is terrified Gemini will blow up, so he gives the responsible AI group extensive power to shape it. Step 2: The responsible AI group goes to town making Gemini woke. Step 3: Woke Gemini causes the blowup Sundar was terrified of.

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This is the same guy who’s been saying every year since 2018 that we’ll have full self-driving next year.

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Elon Musk says we may have AGI by next year and by 2030, AI will exceed all human intelligence combined

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OpenAI’s dirty little secret is that GPTs are reaching their limits and it doesn’t know what to do next.

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The less you know about a profession, the sooner you think it’ll be replaced by AI.

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Computer science is the bastard child of mathematics and electrical engineering.

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A group at IBM developed a link-based search engine before Google. IBM refused to market it, saying it would never make money. A member of that group (Prabhakar Raghavan) is now Google's head of search and ads, responsible for more revenue per year than IBM's entire market cap.

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I've been an AI expert for 30 years. These days I meet a lot of people who've been AI experts for 3 months.

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All eight authors of the transformer paper have now left Google.

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The irony of Nvidia is that its whole game plan was to build application-specific chips, but it's now worth $2 trillion because its chips turned out to be general-purpose.

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The psychology of AI alarmists: Elon Musk: Savior complex. Needs something to save the world from. Geoff Hinton: Ultra-leftist, world-class eccentric. Yoshua Bengio: Hopelessly naive idealist. Stuart Russell: His only impactful application ever was to nuclear test monitoring.…

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3 years

Can we cancel engineering? It's standing in the way of full diversity.

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Wow. The growth of AI’s computing cost looks exponential even on a log scale.

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Using AI is like reading books: it gives you a massive advantage over those who don't.

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The next breakthrough in AI will come from a grad student with a laptop, not from the $7 trillion Sam Altman is trying to raise.

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What they're thinking right now: Sundar Pichai: "Damn, I knew releasing a chatbot was a bad idea." Satya Nadella: "Wow, we didn't just make Google dance, we made them fall on their face." Sam Altman: "Yay, Gemini almost makes ChatGPT look like it's not woke." Mark Zuckerberg:…

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5 months

Your chances of dying of AI extinction are approximately zero. Your chances of dying of a disease that AI could have cured are quite significant.

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Electricity is an existential threat to humans - real cartoon from 1889.

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Statistics is machine learning for shy people.

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We need more engineers and fewer lawyers in government.

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A single American tech company (Apple) is worth more than all European ones put together.

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Boycott Harvard. Don't go there, don't send your kids there, don't donate, don't collaborate with the hypocrisy. Period. #FireClaudineGay

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The Real AI 100 @TIME 's list of the supposedly 100 most influential people in AI is such a mess that as a public service I've taken the time to compile a more reasonable one: Pieter Abbeel @pabbeel Ajay Agrawal @professor_ajay Sam Altman @sama Marc Andreessen @pmarca Susan…

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Jensen Huang told me in 2016 that when Nvidiers first noticed AI researchers were using GPUs they were flabbergasted. The speed and force with which they then pivoted to AI is a case study for the ages.

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Google would be worth a trillion dollars more now if Sundar Pichai hadn't botched AI.

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A better name for deep learning would be brute force learning.

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These five minutes are worth more than many hours of AI alarmist talk.

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Can we just make @ylecun president of AI and call it a day please?

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Machine learning is best for applications where errors have low cost - the opposite of self-driving cars.

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What an idiot, bragging about the damage he's done.

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It's OK to be an activist. What's not OK is to be an activist under cover of being a scientist.

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Q* can solve simple math problems that symbolic AI could solve 50 years ago. Panic! AGI is here! Humanity is over!

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LLMs are fake AI.

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Everything you always wanted to know about machine learning: #MachineLearning #AI #DataScience

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The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World

The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World

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Apple's problem is that machine learning is incompatible with perfectionism.

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Why do we bother?

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2000s: Neural networks = Deep learning. 2010s: Machine learning = Deep learning. 2020s: Artificial intelligence = Deep learning. 2030s: Computer science = Deep learning. 2040s: Science = Deep learning. 2050s: The universe = Deep learning.

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The woke method: 1. Willfully misunderstand and misrepresent what your opponents say. 2. Hammer on it until your misrepresentation prevails. 3. If that doesn't work, kill discussion by insulting everyone until they don't want to be there.

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The time is coming when medical diagnosis unaided by AI will be considered malpractice.

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Machine learning is a devil's bargain: you gain power but lose control.

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Paradoxically, people get more excited about things they understand less. (E.g.: deep learning, quantum computing, cryptocurrencies.)

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If America is such a cesspool of oppression and inequity, how come it’s a magnet for immigrants?

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A Silicon Valley insider (Reid Hoffman) told me an Inflection co-founder (Reid Hoffman) negotiated a deal with a Microsoft board member (Reid Hoffman), advised by a Greylock partner (Reid Hoffman).

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Google is delighted that Mustafa Suleyman is now Microsoft’s problem.

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The biggest threat to Nvidia is new learning algorithms that outclass transformers and don’t run well on GPUs.

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The OpenAI board just did Sam a great favor. Now he can start a real AI company and run with it without all the AI safetyism losers hindering him.

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1 year

Reminder: most AI researchers think the notion of AI ending human civilization is baloney.

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@emilychangtv @laurenepowell @marissamayer @sama @CondoleezzaRice Get your priorities straight. The sex of OpenAI board members is irrelevant. Enough of this odious fixation.

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Academia in one sentence.

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Computers are the automation of mathematics. If you can't reduce something to mathematics, you can't make a computer do it.

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Everyone in academia knows this, but no one admits it. The stench is unbearable.

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Apple, which designs iPhones, is worth 60 times more than Foxconn, which manufactures them.

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Half of the female STEM faculty in the US were hired over more qualified men.

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OpenAI’s accidental lead is rapidly evaporating.

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How a science journal announces it’s now pseudo-science.

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Women are more neurotic than men, and as they gain more power society becomes more neurotic as well.

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The ROI (return on intellect) of science is lowest in physics (massive intellect, no return) and highest in deep learning (no intellect, massive return).

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We do live in a simulation. It's called your brain.

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Happy 70th birthday, k-nearest neighbor - the first true machine learning algorithm, capable of learning any function given enough data.

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A tale of two AI summers: 1980s Now Expert systems Deep learning More rules! More data! LISP machines GPUs Cyc DeepMind Brittleness Brittleness

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Data is the new soil, data scientists are the farmers, and knowledge is what we grow.

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The biggest risk to Nvidia’s market cap is people noticing that deep learning is just scaled-up nearest neighbor.

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Every Model Learned by Gradient Descent Is Approximately a Kernel Machine

Deep learning's successes are often attributed to its ability to automatically discover new representations of the data, rather than relying on handcrafted features like other learning methods. We...

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All mathematics is produced by physical objects (brains, computers). Therefore the laws of physics determine what theorems are possible, and mathematics has no existence independent of our universe.

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Interesting how in all these domains AI is asymptoting at roughly human performance - where's the AI zooming past us to superintelligence that Kurzweil etc. predicted/feared?

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AI has become too fixated on deep learning. It's not healthy.

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Copilot has exposed how mindless most programming is.

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Open letter from computer scientists to ACM opposing cancel culture - sign if you agree:

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Letter with signatories, 12/29

docs.google.com

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AI is overhyped in the short term and underhyped in the long term.

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Javier Milei’s marriage of populism and libertarianism is going to sweep the world.

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Every couple decades what AI revolves around changes. 60s-70s: Search 80s-90s: Knowledge representation 00s-10s: Machine learning 20s-30s: ???

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Men demand an education system that is not hostile to them.

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People who think human-level AI is beyond reach overestimate human intelligence.

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Machine learning is not just another technology. It will radically change how we see the world.

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Europe will soon pass the AI Act, the result of an intensive effort to figure out what it can do to fall further behind in AI.

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Twitter's Parag Agrawal is the first CEO of a major tech company with a background in AI. He won't be the last.

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If you’re an AI grad student, don’t try to invent the next GPT. Invent the next backprop.

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A free version of GPT-3:

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You can't create a superintelligence by training a model to copy humans.

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Big mistake, Ilya.

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I’d rather fire the board than Sam Altman.

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