Sorry, Sam and Elon, we have not reached the Singularity

kgwgk 22 points 3 comments July 28, 2026
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geon

Exactly what technical advancement in the field of LLMs have LLMs themselves contributed to? Because that’s the definition of a singularity. Unless they can point ant any concrete examples, the claims are completely meaningless.

kgwgk

"We wanted the singularity; we got the circularity." https://x.com/GaryMarcus/status/2051804769266659488 https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-ai-circular-deals/

metalman

oh it's the singularly singualar singulhilarity singularity, with nothing to see here, nope, no wars, no files, nothing is wrong, keep moving, everything is perfectly fine, so perfectly fine thats it's singular, here have an emu, it's a brave new world with emu's for everybody, granted that emu's are more than a bit dumb, mean, and downright lethaly dangerous, but it's the singularity, so you get one.

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