There are no new ideas in AI — only new datasets

Photo credit: Google DeepMind via Pexels. Article by Jack Morris. Freethink – July 5, 2025. This article was originally published on Substack. 

Most people know that AI has made unbelievable progress over the last 15 years — especially in the last five. It might feel like that progress is inevitable — although large paradigm-shift-level breakthroughs are uncommon, we march on anyway through a stream of slow and steady progress. In fact, some researchers have recently declared a “Moore’s Law for AI,” where the computer’s ability to do certain things (in this case, certain types of coding tasks) increases exponentially with time: […]

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