Pedro Domingos Quotes

Dear Gen Z, you’re the luckiest generation alive, because AI makes the others obsolete and opens the way for you.

Your brain doesn't know what gradient descent is, and learns better than any neural network.

The companies that went bust in the great fiber buildout of the 90s made communication cheap for the rest of us. It’ll be the same with data centers and AI.

AI will create more exploits than it detects.

AI will spread faster than you might think, because once one side in any interaction starts using it, the other has no choice but to follow suit. This is true in markets, society, politics, war - everything.

Software sucks because those who cut corners win the race. And AI takes that to a whole new level.

OpenAI loses money on every token, but will make it up in volume.

Programmers were always minor gods, and now they’re becoming greater ones.

You don't rise into management, you descend into it.

AI is a magnet for overly ambitious types.

Too many faculty think things will go back to “normal” after Trump, when in fact Trump is only accelerating the inevitable.

Academia is full of smart people, yet they're all incapable of arresting its slide into oblivion.

AI has turned into a hackathon.

Reading a great novel is adding another life to your own.

View from 2040: GPUs were a phase that AI went through in the 2020s. No one remembers them now.