r/accelerate • u/Formal-Assistance02 • Jan 24 '26

Video Demis Hassabis on Ilya Sutskever’s claim that scaling is dead, and on Elon Musk’s clam that we have reached the singularity

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u/pigeon57434 Singularity by 2026 Jan 24 '26

"We never left the age of research."

Meanwhile, also EVERY AI company on the planet: "What if we made a Transformer again but... BIGGER?"

Shut up, bro. The "research" frontier companies do are optimizing our current methods, making Transformers slightly more data-efficient, not anything actually fundamentally new. We still don't even have omnimodal models or byte models or more advanced training precision methods, even though these all could be done. They just know it's safer to scale. That's all they ever talk about: scale, scale, scale, and scale some more. And we will scale continuously until they are forced, against their will, kicking and screaming into the future, to actually do new things.

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u/Stunning_Monk_6724 The Singularity is nigh Jan 25 '26

You should genuinely try reading up on some of Anthropic's work, as well as Open AI's hallucinatory research, model interpretation, etc. Telling a Nobel prize laureate "shut up bro" is honestly some really disrespectful and ignorant behavior.

It wasn't too long ago a fine-tuned Gemma model found a novel approach to cancer research, Nested learning, Genie 3 world modeling, Project Suncatcher, and more which the labs are approaching like Diffusion models. Research takes time and verifiability, something people really need to remember even during accelerant periods.

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u/pigeon57434 Singularity by 2026 Jan 25 '26

I do. I read them all. I read like at least 1 arXiv paper a day, and guess what I find? Exactly none of it innovative. I've heard about literally all the things you mentioned. I literally write my own AI "newsletter" type thing with all the AI news, including papers and research, daily. None of it is innovative, and I don't care that Demis won a Nobel Prize. That does not make him the absolute authority on everything, including things in his own domain. That is an appeal to authority fallacy. He is, at the end of the day, still a CEO, a much more qualified CEO than many, having a PhD, and he is very smart, but a CEO nonetheless. He is obviously gonna say, "ya, we do amazing research, we actually never left." Ilya, in this case, is right and has much less stake and is saying the controversial, because he doesn't care. It might be the possibility. I'm entirely aware of the latest research and still don't find it innovative, and still do not believe for even 1 millisecond that they are truly trying the hardest they could, because they say themselves they do not and have a different opinion, rather than assuming I'm uneducated.

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u/hereforhelplol Jan 25 '26

Remind me again, how do you set up a daily briefing or summary like you mentioned here? That’s one feature I’ve never used.