Scaling up foundation models on larger chunks of the internet and expecting emergent capabilities to emerge without domain-specific engineering has run out as a productive research direction because the new capabilities to learn are tacit knowledge, which requires active deployment and feedback loops, not passive training on internet text.

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Arvin Narayan

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That approach has run out...because the new things that are left for these models to learn are exactly uh things like tacet knowledge

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AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the DifferenceMIT Stone Center on Inequality & Shaping Work
Created: 8/11/2026, 6:51:26 AM

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