SCOUT· 53%23m·2026-10-18·TechnologyA Potentially Historic AI Breakthrough
A new essay from former OpenAI researcher Nick Cammarata is being hailed as a potentially historic AI breakthrough. His argument: neural networks may already be far more understandable than researchers believed, and years of apparent complexity may reflect flaws in how we’ve been looking at them. NLW breaks down the…
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“Crazy, someone’s already published a book on Cammarata’s hypothesis! The description says it was written by GPT-5.6.”
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