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Deep-learning practitioners may prioritize generating visually appealing images, such as images of pink elephants, rather than medical inference.

Alexander Mattick · Why Scaling Prediction Cannot Create Intelligence - Alexander Mattick · 21 Sep 2026

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“who actually wants to figure out given those tests where in AI could you have a disease compared to someone in deep learning who just cares about hey I want to generate pretty images of I don't know pink elephants”
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