“We were looking at it wrong”: The explosive claim that’s upended the AI world — SkimNews

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- Nick Cammarata, a researcher at AI startup Goodfire, opened a 26,000-word blog post with the declaration "I think I have good news about the nature of neural networks."
- The blog post has "knocked the AI world on its head," per the article.
- The post has sparked "wild speculation" as well as cautious reactions from within the AI research community.
Why it matters: A lone startup researcher publishing a 26,000-word manifesto that the AI community treats as paradigm-shifting shows the field's foundational assumptions about neural networks are now contested in public, not just in peer review.
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