Pedro Domingos

@pmddomingos137k followers

Professor of computer science at UW and author of '2040' and 'The Master Algorithm'. Into machine learning, AI, and anything that makes me curious.

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1Nov 12, '24Hey Europe, what did you get done this century?72.4×2.4M5.9k220335
2Nov 8, '24Turns out all the misinformation experts were mainly misinforming themselves.66.5×2.2M26k2.4k479
3Nov 12, '23In the last 30 years, America has produced seven trillion-dollar companies, while Europe has not produced a single one worth more than $100B.63.3×2.1M8.6k1k1.2k
4May 7, '23San Francisco is dying.58.1×2M3.4k580123
5Oct 9, '25One AI year is seven Internet ones.49×1.7M5.3k715916
6Nov 10, '25Zuck spent $15B to hire this guy?46.6×1.6M3.3k1181.1k
7Mar 24, '24Average temperatures by month instead of year, and suddenly the climate crisis looks like a joke.45.5×1.5M3.2k3801.1k
8Nov 8, '25Upon returning to Google, Noam Shazeer fixed a bug in Gemini that alone was worth the $2.5B they paid for him.42×1.4M10k2521.4k
9Oct 29, '24There are risks in voting for Trump. With Kamala there’s the certainty that America will continue to go in the wrong direction. I’ll take the risks.41.8×1.4M20k1.9k294
10Nov 6, '25Sam Altman's core competencies are manipulating investors and manipulating tech nerds.35.5×1.2M5.6k453236
11Oct 16, '24100 years from now, when all the vicissitudes of politics, social media, etc. in 2024 are long forgotten, people will still remember this as a milestone in humanity’s conquest of s34.3×1.2M20k1.2k607
12Jan 31, '24America innovates, China replicates, Europe regulates.34.2×1.2M13k2.1k1.2k
13May 27, '24Your brain consumes 20 W of power. A single GPU consumes a kilowatt. A data center has tens of thousands of them, and is still not as powerful as your brain. Chew on that before yo31×1M8.4k1.1k1.4k
14Aug 27, '25Einstein wasted the second half of his life on a fruitless quest. In the second half of his life, von Neumann invented game theory, computer architecture, implosion nuclear weapons29×977k6.1k3081.9k
15Dec 31, '23What the f*** is wrong with you, @OpenAI?28.5×961k5.1k603368
16Oct 31, '23The psychology of AI alarmists: Elon Musk: Savior complex. Needs something to save the world from. Geoff Hinton: Ultra-leftist, world-class eccentric. Yoshua Bengio: Hopelessly nai25.8×869k1.8k179870
17Oct 15, '25I've found the path to AGI:25.2×850k2.1k2622.4k
18Sep 29, '25Microsoft lost the AI race when it made Mustafa Suleyman its CEO of AI.25×842k3.6k127600
19Oct 26, '25Hinton is no longer afraid of superintelligence.24.6×829k4.1k5992k
20Oct 29, '25The first big tech company to be destroyed by AI will be Salesforce.23.9×805k7.6k337951
21Apr 23, '23OpenAI’s dirty little secret is that GPTs are reaching their limits and it doesn’t know what to do next.20.8×701k2k164297
22Sep 17, '24Yuval Noah Harari is bringing the moment when AI surpasses human intelligence closer and closer by writing stupider and stupider books.20.2×679k9.9k1.1k1.4k
23Feb 26, '24What they're thinking right now: Sundar Pichai: "Damn, I knew releasing a chatbot was a bad idea." Satya Nadella: "Wow, we didn't just make Google dance, we made them fall on their19×642k1.6k156208
24Nov 29, '23Prompt engineer could be the shortest-lived occupation in history.17.5×589k3.2k150151
25Sep 10, '23The Real AI 100 @TIME's list of the supposedly 100 most influential people in AI is such a mess that as a public service I've taken the time to compile a more reasonable one: Piete16.2×546k1.5k3511.5k
26Feb 14, '24OpenAI is the Yahoo of AI.16×541k2.1k172199
27Nov 25, '23Steve Ballmer’s net worth is about to overtake Bill Gates’s, because he held on to his Microsoft stock and Bill didn’t.15.8×531k2.2k104112
28Nov 30, '24Germany needs a Milei.15.5×521k5.7k42878
29Jan 21, '25This is hacking. Don't confuse it with AI.15×506k2.5k1992.5k
30Dec 28, '24America can’t compete with China without immigrant STEM talent. It’s that simple.14×472k3.8k340335
31Jul 24, '23All eight authors of the transformer paper have now left Google.14×472k1.9k140180
32Sep 13, '24OpenAI has just revealed how very far they are from AGI.13.5×454k3.2k181304
33Sep 23, '25Matrix multiplication is now a multi-trillion dollar business.13.2×445k9k9061.1k
34Feb 14, '23The anti-woke underground in academia is growing.13.2×445k4.3k26961
35Nov 26, '24ASML: big moat TSMC: medium moat Nvidia: small moat OpenAI: no moat13×439k2.5k130812
36Aug 29, '25Apple is the Nokia of the AI age.12.4×418k5.3k345269
37Mar 3, '24The Indian government takes the lead in the race to the stupidity singularity.11.5×387k3.1k395291
38Jun 27, '25Come do a PhD in AI. You’ll starve for 5 years and then be instantly worth $1B.11.3×381k5.7k254853
39Nov 16, '25LLMs do more than pattern recognition and less than reasoning. We don’t have a name for it yet.10.9×367k3.4k267446
40Jun 8, '25Apple’s brilliant new AI strategy is to prove it doesn’t exist.10.7×359k5.2k299256
41Oct 8, '24Physicists think AI is physics. Statisticians think AI is statistics. Mathematicians think AI is mathematics. Psychologists think AI is psychology. Neuroscientists think AI is neur10.5×353k5.3k821610
42Dec 11, '23A single American tech company (Apple) is worth more than all European ones put together.10.3×346k1.5k122101
43Dec 3, '24The only thing that grows in Europe is red tape.10.2×345k2.1k201436
44May 21, '23A group at IBM developed a link-based search engine before Google. IBM refused to market it, saying it would never make money. A member of that group (Prabhakar Raghavan) is now Go10.2×343k2k263213
45Jan 24, '25Sam Altman is right, though, that figuring something out for the first time is exponentially harder than reproducing it.10.1×342k4.4k212422
46Jan 15, '23The less you know about a profession, the sooner you think it’ll be replaced by AI.9.5×322k2.1k29845
47Oct 20, '25No, Reid, Anthropic is not one of the good guys. It’s a company that keeps injecting its ideology into its LLMs, and that is precisely what we don’t need.9.5×319k4k244149
48Sep 20, '25The next Elon Musk won’t come to America because the startup trying to hire him won’t be able to afford the $100K H1-B visa fee.9.3×314k3.7k268187
49Mar 26, '24This is the same guy who’s been saying every year since 2018 that we’ll have full self-driving next year.9.0×304k2k108113
50Sep 2, '24The opposite of intelligence is ideology.8.9×299k1.8k325227
51May 7, '23We need more engineers and fewer lawyers in government.8.4×283k1.5k16421
52Dec 10, '23America and China produce goods. Europe produces regulations.7.7×258k2.5k35193
53Apr 25, '23I've been an AI expert for 30 years. These days I meet a lot of people who've been AI experts for 3 months.7.3×245k1.9k14171
54Feb 12, '24The next breakthrough in AI will come from a grad student with a laptop, not from the $7 trillion Sam Altman is trying to raise.6.9×233k1.7k197221
55Oct 13, '25Wow, Europe can now hire 1/3 of a top AI researcher.6.9×233k2.5k113150
56Feb 25, '24Step 1: Sundar Pichai is terrified Gemini will blow up, so he gives the responsible AI group extensive power to shape it. Step 2: The responsible AI group goes to town making Gemin6.7×227k2.1k152139
57Oct 22, '25Sundar Pichai is a 4D-chess genius. By letting OpenAI run away with LLMs, he showed AI is a threat to Google and saved it from being broken up.6.6×223k2.2k72274
58Dec 23, '23We live in a time when the president of Harvard is a serial plagiarist and 700 of its faculty think that’s OK.6.6×222k5.8k93556
59Oct 6, '24Funny how wokes hate Elon Musk not because he censors left-wing tweets but because he doesn’t censor right-wing ones.6.6×221k6.1k608185
60Oct 19, '24Almost 100% of the physical work that machines do wasn’t done by muscles before. It’ll be the same with mental work and AI.6.4×217k1.8k222348
61Nov 7, '25Elon Musk has never met a problem he didn't feel an urge to solve. We need more people like that.6.0×201k3.2k216168
62Aug 10, '22All of linear algebra in one diagram:5.8×06.2k1.2k1.8k
63Oct 8, '24A psychologist turned computer scientist just won the Nobel prize in physics for sociological reasons.5.5×186k2.8k280337
64Sep 25, '25This should be a poster in every classroom.5.3×180k2.8k5291.2k
65May 11, '23Electricity is an existential threat to humans - real cartoon from 1889.5.1×172k1.6k319138
66Jun 16, '25Netanyahu is Israel’s Churchill.4.8×163k3.8k20557
68Oct 3, '24Doctors deciding whether AI should be used in medicine is like longshoremen deciding whether ports should be automated.4.6×155k3.6k269189
69Nov 3, '25The reason Sam Altman gets testy when he’s asked how OpenAI is going to pay for the trillions of dollars it’s planning to spend is that he has no answer.4.5×152k3.7k21398
70Dec 3, '23Your chances of dying of AI extinction are approximately zero. Your chances of dying of a disease that AI could have cured are quite significant.4.4×147k1.6k24364
71Jun 28, '24Three interesting facts: - The brain evolved for vision, but turned out to be good for language. - Vision is reverse graphics. - GPUs were designed for graphics, but turned out to 4.3×147k2.8k331526
72Oct 2, '24People who think Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter made it worse are clueless.4.3×144k2.6k9242
73Jun 8, '24All computer science departments are becoming machine learning departments. (Naveen Rao)4.2×141k1.3k125167
74Jan 15, '25Language models were invented in 1950 by Claude Shannon.4.2×141k2.2k3251.3k
75Oct 8, '24Next: OpenAI wins the Nobel Prize in Literature.4.0×134k2.4k31076
76Mar 12, '21The demand for non-woke education is skyrocketing. Who will meet it?3.6×05.8k65870
77Aug 16, '22Greatest textbooks of all time (1/2): Feynman, "The Feynman Lectures on Physics" Pauling, "General Chemistry" Samuelson, "Economics" Russell, "A History of Western Philosophy" Knut3.6×02.4k3552.2k
78Jan 22, '25Stargate would look a lot better if DeepSeek hadn't just matched o1 at a tiny fraction of the cost.3.4×115k1.9k116144
79Dec 12, '23Boycott Harvard. Don't go there, don't send your kids there, don't donate, don't collaborate with the hypocrisy. Period. #FireClaudineGay3.3×110k136186
80Jul 25, '25LLMs give the illusion of intelligence like pixels on a screen give the illusion of a continuous image.3.2×108k2k247274
81Jun 14, '25No one plays chess like Mossad.3.1×105k5.6k25362
82Nov 5, '25100 years ago Europe ran the world. Today it can’t even run itself.3.0×102k1.8k8643
83Feb 27, '24The irony of Nvidia is that its whole game plan was to build application-specific chips, but it's now worth $2 trillion because its chips turned out to be general-purpose.3.0×100k1.9k144122
84May 21, '24Luck increases exponentially with hard work.2.9×96k1.7k286230
85Apr 11, '25We the taxpayers owe Elon Musk a huge debt of gratitude.2.4×83k2k10420
86Oct 6, '24Calling this magazine “Scientific American” is misinformation.2.4×80k2.7k276144
87Jul 18, '22For girls there’s the entire education system. For boys there’s Jordan Peterson.2.2×03.6k243170
88Jun 29, '18Crypto-currencies are everything you don’t understand about money combined with everything you don’t understand about computers. (John Oliver)2.1×02.6k84423
89Dec 16, '20One of the saddest things I've learned recently: students deciding against getting a PhD because they can't take the political correctness of academia any more.2.0×02.7k22695
90Sep 26, '24I voted for Biden in 2020, but he was a fraud. I'm not making the same mistake with Harris.1.8×62k1.8k7417
91Jan 2, '22Career paths in AI: Good at math: learning theory Good at GPU programming: deep learning Good at data wrangling: data science None of the above: AI ethics1.8×02.3k286366
92Nov 6, '25The best outcome for America and AI is if OpenAI goes bust before it brings everyone else down with them.1.6×55k3.6k34775
93Apr 13, '22Machine learning consumes 75% of Google's computing power.1.6×02.5k32075
94Jun 10, '22Wow. The growth of AI’s computing cost looks exponential even on a log scale.1.4×01.8k327207
95Sep 2, '22Nvidia now makes more money from AI than from gaming.1.4×02.3k22667
96Sep 10, '21A 2021 sequel to "The Matrix" should really be called "The Tensor".1.3×02.2k27815
97Feb 10, '21Can we cancel engineering? It's standing in the way of full diversity.1.3×01.8k29890
98Nov 7, '21Computer science is the bastard child of mathematics and electrical engineering.1.3×01.9k26961
100Nov 29, '20Statistics is machine learning for shy people.1.0×01.5k16337
101Nov 7, '21Using AI is like reading books: it gives you a massive advantage over those who don't.0.6×086614439

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