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My advisor always used to say: "If the wisest people in your field say that something is possible, they are probably right. If they say that something is not po
by bravura 2y ago
My advisor always used to say: "If the wisest people in your field say that something is possible, they are probably right. If they say that something is not possible, they may very well be wrong."
- naveen99 2y agoI guess he wasn’t a mathematician.
- pinkmuffinere 2y agoEven in the absence of data I think our lived experience is that this observation is true. I like it.
- croes 2y agoHe says the wall is possible, so he is right?
- nitwit005 2y agoBut they are, of course, not saying it's impossible to make a better AI.
- tardwrangler 2y agoI read this article as less of "AGI is impossible" and more of "it's possible to find a better architecture than the transformer, and we are at a point where we need to focus more on research than LLM hype."
- ALittleLight 2y agoWhat has Gary Marcus done to be considered "The wisest people in your field"? Looking at his Wikipedia page, he seems like a professor who wrote a couple books. I don't see why I should privilege his view over people at OpenAI (who make functional and innovative products rather than books).