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Kelsey Piper @ Vox 1 place · 01/12/2025 07:00 EDT

It’s getting harder to measure just how good AI is getting

Toward the end of 2024, I offered a take on all the talk about whether AI’s “scaling laws” were hitting a real-life technical wall. I argued that the question matters less than many think: There are existing AI systems powerful enough to profoundly change our world, and the next few years are going to be […]

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