# Why Scaling Prediction Cannot Create Intelligence: The Alexander Mattick Masterclass

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> Published: 2026-09-21 17:39:22+00:00

In an uncompromising tour de force on Machine Learning Street Talk, AI researcher Alexander Mattick dismantles industrial AI's reigning dogmas. From the rebranding of JEPA and World Models to the mathematical realities of scaling laws as continuous function spaces, Mattick outlines why pure predictive scaling fails to yield genuine machine intelligence.