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I don't understand why he has such an axe to grind. Is there some historical baggage here? Of course there are plenty of problems with the current state of AI
by gandalfgeek 2y ago
I don't understand why he has such an axe to grind. Is there some historical baggage here?
Of course there are plenty of problems with the current state of AI and LLMs, but to have such a preconceived pessimistic outlook that can't even acknowledge their massive and quick adoption and usefulness in multiple domains seems not intellectually honest.
- 1123581321 2y agoMarcus is of a school of thought that intelligent brain requires symbolic reasoning, not just a neural network. He also believes intelligent symbolic reasoning is attributable to a genetic origin and can’t be entirely trained. I don’t know enough to say the school is wrong, but it is in crisis with the successes of large language models.
- sandspar 2y agoGeorge HW Bush built part of his folksy persona around hating the taste of broccoli. If one day he tried eating broccoli and enjoyed it, would he tell everyone? Likely he'd choose to keep his reputation and just keep his new taste to himself.
- tim333 2y agoIt's kind of his schtick. He pitched himself as an AI expert but hasn't really contributed anything much to developing AI, but gets a lot of coverage for saying this that and the other won't work. (see 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...)