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François Fleuret asserts AI exceeds philosophy in understanding knowledge

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François Fleuret of Meta FAIR and the University of Geneva asserted that machine learning and artificial intelligence have illuminated knowledge and reality more than twenty centuries of philosophy. He voiced willingness to defend the stance. Research engineer Taco Cohen challenged the assertion for lacking definitions of terms like understanding and the nature of knowledge in the exchange.

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Hot take: machine learning and AI did more to understand the nature of knowledge, and our relation to reality than 20 centuries of philosophy. I am ready to kind of defend this hill.

5:18 AM · May 14, 2026 View on X

@francoisfleuret How can you make such a claim without first defining “understanding”, “nature of”, and “hot take”??

François Fleuret@francoisfleuret

Hot take: machine learning and AI did more to understand the nature of knowledge, and our relation to reality than 20 centuries of philosophy. I am ready to kind of defend this hill.

12:18 PM · May 14, 2026 · 19K Views
12:49 PM · May 14, 2026 · 1.1K Views

Hot take: machine learning and AI did more to understand the nature of knowledge, and our relation to reality than 20 centuries of philosophy.

I am ready to kind of defend this hill.

12:18 PM · May 14, 2026 · 19K Views

@TacoCohen Taco, the thing found the password of the bitcoins of that guy.

Taco Cohen@TacoCohen

@francoisfleuret How can you make such a claim without first defining “understanding”, “nature of”, and “hot take”??

12:49 PM · May 14, 2026 · 1.1K Views
12:50 PM · May 14, 2026 · 9 Views

@TacoCohen Understanding would be low validation error, nature of would be the source code?

Taco Cohen@TacoCohen

@francoisfleuret How can you make such a claim without first defining “understanding”, “nature of”, and “hot take”??

12:49 PM · May 14, 2026 · 1.1K Views
12:56 PM · May 14, 2026 · 147 Views

@francoisfleuret @TMoldwin What do you mean by “knowledge”? 🙃

François Fleuret@francoisfleuret

Hot take: machine learning and AI did more to understand the nature of knowledge, and our relation to reality than 20 centuries of philosophy. I am ready to kind of defend this hill.

12:18 PM · May 14, 2026 · 19K Views
1:00 PM · May 14, 2026 · 108 Views
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