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Yes, there's a lot hype, and also quite a bit of drama, but there's also real progress. Every time I read anything by Gary Marcus, I feel like we're stuck in a
by cs702 2y ago
Yes, there's a lot hype, and also quite a bit of drama, but there's also real progress.
Every time I read anything by Gary Marcus, I feel like we're stuck in a silly loop:
while True:
progress = HardWordByMany_function(progress)
print(summarize(progress))
>>> Models can now do this previously impossible thing!
criticism = GaryMarcus_function(progress)
print(criticism)
>>> It's not intelligence, because it can't do this other thing.
- keepingscore 2y agoFwiw I don't think he's talking to you. My feed is filled with ai influencers getting all kinds of likes and comments, ready to declare AGI is here!
- cs702 2y agoYes, there's a lot of hype, much of it fueled by all those "ai influencers."
- tim333 2y agoThere was quite a funny bit on Hinton using Marcus as an example of a human who doesn't understand neural net but confabulates https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1ajemjc/spoiler_alert_gary_marcus_is_no_ai_expert/ https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1ajemjc/spoile...