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Like Yann LeCun said, Gary Marcus has contributed exactly nothing to the field, he's an influencer that claims to be an expert. Just ignore him.
by martindbp 3y ago
Like Yann LeCun said, Gary Marcus has contributed exactly nothing to the field, he's an influencer that claims to be an expert. Just ignore him.
- nh23423fefe 3y agoto wit: his appearance on Ezra Klein was pretty terrible >It’s a kind of glorified cut and paste. Pastiche is putting together things kind of imitating a style. And in some sense, that’s what it’s doing. It’s imitating particular styles, and it’s cutting and pasting a lot of stuff. It’s a little bit more complicated than that. But to a first approximation, that’s what it’s doing is cutting and pasting things. This argument is terrible because it proves too much. Either AIs are automata with no connection to the world, or if they are connected to the world its just copy-paste. And somehow infants aren't just copy paste because uuuuh they have "true understanding" whatever that is. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/podcasts/transcript-ezra-klein-interviews-gary-marcus.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/podcasts/transcript-ezra-...