alt Hacker NewsWhy is AI limited to just a raw LLM. Scaffolding, RL, multi-modal... so many techniques which can be applied. METR has shown AI's time horizon for staying on task is doubling every 7 months or less.
https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-14-how-does-time-horizon-vary-...
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Night_Thastus • last Wednesday at 11:42 PM
Because LLMs are just about all that actually exists as a product, even if an inconsistent one.
Maybe some day a completely different approach could actually make AI, but that's vapor at the moment. IF it happens, there will be something to talk about.
Because all the money has been going into LLMs and "inference machines" (what a non-descriptive name). So when an investor says "AI", that's what they mean.