“Gary Marcus now saying AI can’t do things it can already do” by Benjamin_Todd
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This is a link post.January 2020, Gary Marcus wrote GPT-2 And The Nature Of Intelligence, demonstrating a bunch of easy problems that GPT-2 couldn’t get right. He concluded these were “a clear sign that it is time to consider investing in different approaches.” Two years later, GPT-3 could get most of these right. Marcus wrote a new list of 15 problems GPT-3 couldn’t solve, concluding “more data makes for a better, more fluent approximation to language; it does not make for trustworthy intelligence.” A year later, GPT-4 could get most of these right. Now he's gone one step further, and criticised limitations that have already been overcome. Last week Marcus put a series of questions into chatGPT, found mistakes, and concluded AGI is an example of “the madness of crowds”. However, Marcus used the free version, which only includes GPT-4o. That was released in May 2024, an eternity behind [...]

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First published: February 9th, 2025

Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/oBo7tGTvP9f26M98C/gary-marcus-now-saying-ai-can-t-do-things-it-can-already-do)

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