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The speaker believes people give too little attention to inference because human activity does not often resemble inference.
Tim Scarfe · Why Scaling Prediction Cannot Create Intelligence - Alexander Mattick · 21 Sep 2026
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“And can we just talk more about inference in general? So I think this is something that people don't think enough about because we don't do.”
“We don't really do things that resemble inference that much. With language models,”44:51Report a misattribution
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