Pedro Domingos Quotes

AI will create more jobs for workers without a college degree than ever, because people will have more money to spend on houses, eating out, travel, etc.

The social sciences are quicksand. The natural sciences are bedrock.

The people who had a nice career writing crap software will now either have a nice career writing non-crap software or no career.

It takes a planet to create a superintelligence.

The less you know about the diffusion of innovations, the sooner you think AI will take over.

We all walk around with an absurdly simplified version of the world in our heads. What's amazing is that it works at all.

A lot of what passes for progress in AI is just the application of ever-increasing amounts of compute. And as a user you don't care until you start paying the bill.

I don't know what's worse, for Europe to not be in the AI race or for it to be represented by a laughingstock like Mistral.

Anthropic should be renamed Entropic.

The problem with frontier lab researchers who think AI is imminent is that they mistake their world for everyone else's.

A month in the lab can save you a minute of talking to an AI.

AI should turn your sloppy reasoning into mathematical proofs, not the other way around.

AI will make many scientific breakthroughs just by having different mental blocks from humans.

Greatest scrambles in tech history:
- Microsoft to catch up with the Internet
- Meta to catch up with mobile
- Google to catch up with AI

Pre-training: imitate humans
Post-training: please humans
Inference: beat humans