skynet or skynot? ai can do more than just predict the next word

AI companies are investing immensely in creating training data that represents ‘the most capable person you know’
Even if AI’s abilities are bound by its training data, the AI companies are hellbent on assembling training data for basically every economically significant task.

This post helped me re-frame the ‘it’s just one word at a time’. Ai is capable of so much more as it gains access to more and more surface area

_{Quote Citation: STEVEN ADLER, “AI isn’t “just predicting the next word” anymore”, JAN 05, 2026, https://stevenadler.substack.com/p/ai-isnt-just-predicting-the-next}