Yufa Zhou
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Be Unbenchmarkable in the Agent Era
Why benchmarkable skills are less valued, and why being unbenchmarkable is more necessary in the AI Agent Era.
Essay on human agency
May 2026
The Unreasonable Elegance of AIGC: On the Learnability of LLMs and Diffusion Models
How next-token prediction and score matching turn intractable generation into tractable, atomic tasks—and why the resulting optimization landscape makes modern AIGC both possible and elegant.
Essay on learnability & AIGC
Feb 2026
On the Surprising Coincidence Between Large Language Models and Ordinary Language Philosophy
A philosophical essay on meaning as use, normativity, and judgment—and on what contemporary large language models reveal about the power and limits of linguistic fluency.
Philosophical essay
Dec 2025
AI Theory: Fragmented but Expansive
I predict AI won't converge to a single unifying theory, but rather to a rich tapestry of frameworks—each illuminating different facets of learning, reasoning, and intelligence.
Personal prediction on AI theory
Aug 2025
Last updated: Jun 2026
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