Pundit ClaimsAI claims by Gary Marcus and Ed Zitron, with the evidence

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  1. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Much of what SB-1047 would require is something AI companies already voluntarily committed to at the White House and in Seoul.

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    Assessment marcus-an-open-letter-to-fei-fei-li-concerning-d1f609-a1.

  2. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-an-open-letter-to-fei-fei-li-concerning-927ff2

    The openai review found the criteria unfair to the speaker's words.

  3. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-an-open-letter-to-fei-fei-li-concerning-77feb2

    The anthropic review does not accept e1 as supports.

  4. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    With no other serious proposal on offer, Marcus personally favours SB-1047, though he would welcome discussion of alternatives.

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    Assessment marcus-an-open-letter-to-fei-fei-li-concerning-521f92-a1.

  5. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-an-open-letter-to-fei-fei-li-concerning-3e417e

    The final-text check failed: citations_correct.

  6. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    The US should at least consider pivoting toward working with China on AI for global good instead of starting a new AI cold war.

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    Assessment marcus-an-open-letter-to-david-sacks-8195b4-a1.

  7. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    If the US starts a new AI cold war with China, it will probably end uncomfortably for everyone, with no clear winners.

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    Assessment marcus-an-open-letter-to-david-sacks-8195b4-2-a2.

  8. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-an-epistemic-clusterfuck-in-the-making-8959c9

    The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.

  9. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Automatically amplifying the already inherent tendency towards extremism without fact-checking or reasoned analysis is a recipe for chaos.

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    Assessment marcus-an-epistemic-clusterfuck-in-the-making-80c124-a1.

  10. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    The epistemic situation may actually get worse than social media, which Marcus says might itself be an example of an epistemic clusterfuck.

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    Assessment marcus-an-epistemic-clusterfuck-in-the-making-4daef4-a1.

  11. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    LLMs whose synthesis is confined to X tweets will be even less grounded in reality than LLMs in general.

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    Assessment marcus-an-epistemic-clusterfuck-in-the-making-176594-a1.

  12. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Many people will not be able to afford or want humanoid robots, and there will not be six humanoid robots per car anytime soon.

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    Assessment marcus-an-epidemic-of-weirdly-precise-ai-dc0df2-a1.

  13. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Quantitative vibes, meaning gut feelings expressed as numbers, are still just vibes.

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    Assessment marcus-an-epidemic-of-weirdly-precise-ai-ccc5d2-a1.

  14. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Humanoid robots will not sell 200 times Roomba's roughly 50 million units in the near term.

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    Assessment marcus-an-epidemic-of-weirdly-precise-ai-b29a88-a1.

  15. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-an-epidemic-of-weirdly-precise-ai-b29a88-2

    The final-text check failed: citations_correct.

  16. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    AI will not be able to do anything any human can do within the next one to two years, and Marcus would bet a million dollars on it.

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    Assessment marcus-an-epidemic-of-weirdly-precise-ai-8edf78-a2.

  17. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    By OpenAI's own data, o1 is certainly not 100 times better than GPT-4.

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    Assessment marcus-an-epidemic-of-weirdly-precise-ai-6dd8f9-a2.

  18. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    People should not take Musk's or Son's AI predictions from the Riyadh forum seriously.

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    Assessment marcus-an-epidemic-of-weirdly-precise-ai-6ab6b1-a1.

  19. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Generative AI uses so much power that it keeps fossil fuels in demand, which benefits oil-rich countries whether or not GenAI ever becomes reliable.

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    Assessment marcus-an-epidemic-of-weirdly-precise-ai-68ed3f-a2.

  20. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Those making these outlandish claims get free press for them, and that drives up the whole thing, at least for a while.

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    Assessment marcus-an-epidemic-of-weirdly-precise-ai-68db25-a1.

  21. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-an-epidemic-of-weirdly-precise-ai-5283b4

    a observation claim cannot be assessed on the forecast_outcome axis; the horizon on 2026-10-28 is open_horizon, not not_due

  22. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Nobody can predict AI's future power, chip, and capital needs with the precision Son claimed.

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    Assessment marcus-an-epidemic-of-weirdly-precise-ai-10b750-a1.

  23. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    AI, even in its current form, is about to have a huge impact on society.

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    Assessment marcus-an-epic-ai-debateand-why-everyone-d8f88e-a1.

  24. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    AI should pursue hybrid approaches combining neural networks with reasoning and structured representations.

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    Assessment marcus-an-epic-ai-debateand-why-everyone-b91461-a1.

  25. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Current approaches to getting machines to reason about causality are not adequate, at least not yet.

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    Assessment marcus-an-epic-ai-debateand-why-everyone-90c73e-a1.

  26. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    The remaining years of the 2020s will be wild for AI.

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    Assessment marcus-an-epic-ai-debateand-why-everyone-68bc3b-a1.

  27. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Recent advances in AI-generated content may lead to an avalanche of misinformation.

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    Assessment marcus-an-epic-ai-debateand-why-everyone-5dd265-a1.

  28. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Contemporary approaches to AI may never solve reasoning, abstraction, compositionality, and factuality, which any intelligent machine should have.

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    Assessment marcus-an-epic-ai-debateand-why-everyone-50d38d-a1.

  29. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    AI research should place greater emphasis on understanding human intelligence.

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    Assessment marcus-an-epic-ai-debateand-why-everyone-4eff9e-a1.

  30. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    SpaceX will not return 2,538x its IPO investment as Amazon did, which would imply a market cap of about $4,442 trillion.

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    Assessment marcus-an-entire-industry-is-being-propped-ed4c8f-a2.

  31. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    If AI boosts productivity, the boost may appear first in coding.

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    Assessment marcus-an-entire-industry-is-being-propped-cd9fec-a2.

  32. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-an-entire-industry-is-being-propped-cd9fec-2

    The anthropic screen finds the claim checkable, so it must be graded.

  33. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-an-entire-industry-is-being-propped-a03b89

    The anthropic screen finds the claim checkable, so it must be graded.

  34. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    OpenAI is in trouble.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-an-entire-industry-is-being-propped-9c00d2-a1.

  35. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    OpenAI may not survive.

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    Assessment marcus-an-entire-industry-is-being-propped-9c00d2-2-a1.

  36. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-an-entire-industry-is-being-propped-75e72f

    The anthropic review reads the claim differently.

  37. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-an-entire-industry-is-being-propped-6b8b55

    The final-text check failed: rationale_supported_by_evidence; overclaims: The 2,538x Amazon figure comes from Marcus's post, which relies on a figure posted on X..

  38. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Buying the SpaceX IPO reflects poor understanding of math or history.

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    Assessment marcus-an-entire-industry-is-being-propped-2bdc18-a1.

  39. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    The costs of developing AI data centers, including OpenAI's Stargate, are rising rapidly.

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    Assessment marcus-an-entire-industry-is-being-propped-26bf80-a1.

  40. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Generative AI is a risky bet that could pay off or could well tank the economy.

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    Assessment marcus-an-entire-industry-is-being-propped-22b948-a1.

  41. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-an-entire-industry-is-being-propped-16b927

    The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.

  42. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-an-entire-industry-is-being-propped-0b096d

    The anthropic review does not accept e3 as contradicts.

  43. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    AI may never become profitable.

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    Assessment marcus-an-entire-industry-is-being-propped-0b096d-2-a1.

  44. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Anthropic has a chance of becoming profitable.

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    Assessment marcus-an-entire-industry-is-being-propped-0837e5-a1.

  45. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-an-entire-industry-is-being-propped-0837e5-2

    The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.

  46. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-an-entire-industry-is-being-propped-00cf36

    The openai review reads the claim differently.

  47. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    To Marcus, Midjourney's output closely resembling copyrighted film stills sure looks like automated, digital plagiarism.

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    Assessment marcus-an-artist-fights-back-and-midjourney-c80263-a1.

  48. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-an-artist-fights-back-and-midjourney-b260d0

    The final-text check failed: citations_correct; overclaims: e3 explanation: "The preserved December 23 report independently describes close resemblance in the examples credited to Southen." The quoted paragraph is about 'several examples on X' and is not explicitly credited to Southen in the text..

  49. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    The evidence suggests Midjourney was trained on high-resolution copyrighted images, which it may or may not have a license for.

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    Assessment marcus-an-artist-fights-back-and-midjourney-ab891a-a1.

  50. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-an-artist-fights-back-and-midjourney-35a55f

    hedged language is not scored, even on a plain reading

  51. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-an-artist-fights-back-and-midjourney-2644ae

    The openai screen reads the claim differently.

  52. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-an-artist-fights-back-and-midjourney-25b426

    The two reviews differ: anthropic historical_observation/not_applicable/supported, openai historical_observation/not_applicable/unresolved.

  53. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Midjourney's output was not labelled as being directly based on copyrighted work.

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    Assessment marcus-an-artist-fights-back-and-midjourney-050eae-a1.

  54. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-an-artist-fights-back-and-midjourney-043f60

    The openai review found the criteria unfair to the speaker's words.

  55. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Scaling laws are merely empirical generalizations that held for a limited period while enough fresh data and compute were available.

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    Assessment marcus-an-ai-rumor-you-wont-want-to-miss-db6cf3-a1.

  56. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    The era when simply adding data and compute produced large gains may well be over.

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    Assessment marcus-an-ai-rumor-you-wont-want-to-miss-d707e6-a1.

  57. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Marcus strongly suspects that pure scaling of AI models has reached a point of diminishing returns, as of November 2024.

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    Assessment marcus-an-ai-rumor-you-wont-want-to-miss-7e7d49-a1.

  58. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Scaling (improving AI by adding more data and compute) was always a hypothesis.

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    Assessment marcus-an-ai-rumor-you-wont-want-to-miss-1734b2-a1.

  59. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    The American people should have a say in AI policy, especially AI policy of this magnitude, and Congress should deliberate.

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    Assessment marcus-america-and-probably-the-world-stands-f400be-a1.

  60. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Hegseth's demand would in principle allow Anthropic's software to be applied to nuclear weapons without humans in the loop.

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    Assessment marcus-america-and-probably-the-world-stands-db7386-a1.

  61. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Hegseth's deadline to Anthropic is a power grab meant to circumvent Congress and cut others out of the decision.

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    Assessment marcus-america-and-probably-the-world-stands-d84d43-a1.

  62. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-america-and-probably-the-world-stands-5b4015

    The final-text check failed: conditions_shown, citations_correct; overclaims: Hegseth promoted fast military AI adoption in a high-profile public speech, which shows it was a personal, public priority..

  63. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-america-and-probably-the-world-stands-524ea5

    The anthropic review does not accept e4 as contradicts.

  64. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-america-and-probably-the-world-stands-2bfba4

    The openai screen reads the claim differently.

  65. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Unrestricted military use of Anthropic's AI could well extend to nuclear weapons.

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    Assessment marcus-america-and-probably-the-world-stands-266558-a1.

  66. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-america-and-probably-the-world-stands-1e1f18

    The two reviews differ: anthropic forecast_outcome/open_horizon/not_adjudicable, openai forecast_outcome/open_horizon/unresolved.

  67. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    The real reason for Sam Altman's move to cut into Elon Musk's turf is to get more data and to pivot OpenAI into surveillance.

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    Assessment marcus-altman-vs-musk-cage-match-37688e-a1.

  68. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    OpenAI's move into Musk's turf is part of an effort to pivot OpenAI into surveillance.

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    Assessment marcus-altman-vs-musk-cage-match-37688e-2-a1.

  69. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-alphaproof-alphageometry-chatgpt-ff00da

    e1 is dated 2024-07, which is not inside the period described (2024-07-01 to 2024-07-28); it can only be context

  70. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-alphaproof-alphageometry-chatgpt-e5f129

    the conclusive event's date differs from its evidence

  71. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-alphaproof-alphageometry-chatgpt-ddb3ee

    e6 is dated 2024, which is not inside the period described (… to 2024-07-28); it can only be context

  72. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    LLMs should either be abandoned or used only as components within larger systems that reason and plan better.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-alphaproof-alphageometry-chatgpt-ce9adc-a1.

  73. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Generative AI's reliability failings can never be solved, given its inherent nature.

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    Assessment marcus-alphaproof-alphageometry-chatgpt-cab6c8-a1.

  74. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Generative AI has no killer app.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-alphaproof-alphageometry-chatgpt-c58ed5-a2.

  75. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-alphaproof-alphageometry-chatgpt-b9230d

    The final-text check failed; overclaims: No decisive event contradicting the forecast had occurred, but this does not confirm 'never'..

  76. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    The current generative AI approach has reached a plateau.

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    Assessment marcus-alphaproof-alphageometry-chatgpt-ad371e-a2.

  77. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Generative AI, especially ChatGPT, will soon flame out.

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    Assessment marcus-alphaproof-alphageometry-chatgpt-a214e8-a2.

  78. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Google DeepMind's work shows neural networks and symbolic systems can be profitably combined.

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    Assessment marcus-alphaproof-alphageometry-chatgpt-a113d8-a1.

  79. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    No generative AI company has a competitive moat.

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    Assessment marcus-alphaproof-alphageometry-chatgpt-958ae5-a1.

  80. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    AGI cannot be achieved without neurosymbolic AI.

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    Assessment marcus-alphaproof-alphageometry-chatgpt-88edd6-a1.

  81. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    The generative AI bubble will begin to burst by July 28, 2025.

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    Assessment marcus-alphaproof-alphageometry-chatgpt-75be04-a2.

  82. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-alphaproof-alphageometry-chatgpt-6b90d8

    The anthropic screen finds the claim checkable, so it must be graded.

  83. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    The current AI investment climate is hugely biased against genuine novelty.

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    Assessment marcus-alphaproof-alphageometry-chatgpt-5fd6c8-a2.

  84. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    GenAI is vastly overrated, and its collapse may well lead to an AI winter of sorts.

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    Assessment marcus-alphaproof-alphageometry-chatgpt-502de0-a1.

  85. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-alphaproof-alphageometry-chatgpt-3b7617

    The openai review found the criteria unfair to the speaker's words.

  86. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    The impending generative AI collapse will not lead to the absolute death of AI.

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    Assessment marcus-alphaproof-alphageometry-chatgpt-3694e4-a2.

  87. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-alphaproof-alphageometry-chatgpt-313fcd

    The openai review found the criteria unfair to the speaker's words.

  88. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry 2 rely on human coders translating Olympiad problems into formal form, a serious shortcoming.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-alphaproof-alphageometry-chatgpt-22368d-a1.

  89. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-alphaproof-alphageometry-chatgpt-21594b

    e1 is dated 2024-07, which is not inside the period described (2024-07-01 to 2024-07-28); it can only be context

  90. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    People are starting to realize generative AI has plateaued, lacks a killer app, still hallucinates and errs, and has no moat.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-alphaproof-alphageometry-chatgpt-1d76b9-a1.

  91. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-alphaproof-alphageometry-chatgpt-1c26e3

    The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.

  92. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-alphaproof-alphageometry-chatgpt-1141c0

    The two reviews differ: anthropic historical_observation/not_applicable/mixed, openai historical_observation/not_applicable/contradicted.

  93. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-alphaproof-alphageometry-chatgpt-0bf994

    The final-text check failed: proposition_faithful; overclaims: LLMs cannot be counted on, which is a big part of why Fortune 500 companies have lost confidence in them..

  94. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-alphageometry2-impressive-accomplishment-fbc5b6

    The openai review found the criteria unfair to the speaker's words.

  95. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Greater modularity will be a necessary part of future AI.

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    Assessment marcus-alphageometry2-impressive-accomplishment-ce59af-a1.

  96. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-alphageometry2-impressive-accomplishment-c4a43f

    The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.

  97. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    AlphaGeometry2 is a specialized system, nowhere close to a single general-purpose learning architecture.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-alphageometry2-impressive-accomplishment-9b8c0f-a2.

  98. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-alphageometry2-impressive-accomplishment-9afe42

    The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.

  99. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Benchmarks are often narrow, and strong benchmark results should not be taken as full conceptual understanding.

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    Assessment marcus-alphageometry2-impressive-accomplishment-907018-a1.

  100. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-alphageometry2-impressive-accomplishment-7ecc0d

    e2 is dated 2025-02, which is not inside the period described (2025-02-01 to 2025-02-17); it can only be context

  101. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    The TechCrunch headline's claim about AlphaGeometry2 was not made by DeepMind and is not true.

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    Assessment marcus-alphageometry2-impressive-accomplishment-7cc07a-a2.

  102. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Of the 50 IMO geometry problems from 2000 to 2024, a composite AI system starting from the English problem statements could solve at most 60%.

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    Assessment marcus-alphageometry2-impressive-accomplishment-7c1011-a1.

  103. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    The authors see no reason at all to call AlphaGeometry2's solutions 'superhuman'.

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    Assessment marcus-alphageometry2-impressive-accomplishment-7a3f81-a1.

  104. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    The claim that AlphaGeometry2 'just figured out geometry' is false because it does not cover many basic aspects of geometry.

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    Assessment marcus-alphageometry2-impressive-accomplishment-507dca-a1.

  105. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-alphageometry2-impressive-accomplishment-4af1b1

    e2 is dated 2025-02, which is not inside the period described (2024-01-01 to 2025-02-17); it can only be context

  106. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-alphageometry2-impressive-accomplishment-43163c

    The final-text check failed: citations_correct.

  107. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    AlphaGeometry2 solving 42 of 50 IMO geometry problems is, without question, a very impressive accomplishment.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-alphageometry2-impressive-accomplishment-2def63-a1.

  108. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-alphageometry2-impressive-accomplishment-188db4

    The openai review reads the claim differently.

  109. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    OpenAI's reported effort to launch a social media network is presumably motivated in part by a wish to collect more private data.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-all-your-data-belong-to-us-b05376-a1.

  110. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    People should speak up now against the growing AI-driven surveillance.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-all-your-data-belong-to-us-68fce2-a1.

  111. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Two reports make clear that the era of Big Brother is about to enter the United States in massive new ways, not just via OpenAI but through multiple vectors.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-all-your-data-belong-to-us-460087-a1.

  112. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-ais-jurassic-park-moment-d6dfe4

    The openai review found the criteria unfair to the speaker's words.

  113. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    If Stack Overflow is flooded with worthless generated code, programmers will leave, its database will become untrustworthy, and the site will die.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-ais-jurassic-park-moment-c8fb27-a2.

  114. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Generative AI systems like ChatGPT, Dall-E 2, and Lensa can easily be automated to generate misinformation at unprecedented scale.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-ais-jurassic-park-moment-c6fe15-a3.

  115. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    ChatGPT is about as capable as Galactica of producing nonsense misinformation.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-ais-jurassic-park-moment-ace0c5-a2.

  116. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-ais-jurassic-park-moment-acb031

    The openai review found the criteria unfair to the speaker's words.

  117. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    User accounts must be more strongly validated and anonymous bot-resistant authentication should become mandatory.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-ais-jurassic-park-moment-9ad25e-a1.

  118. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Countries may need to make misinformation legally actionable like libel when created with sufficient malice and volume.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-ais-jurassic-park-moment-8d6126-a1.

  119. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Propaganda-producing nation-states and bad actors are likely to use LLMs to attack social media and create fake websites at unprecedented volume.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-ais-jurassic-park-moment-8c31a2-a1.

  120. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    LLMs lack mechanisms for verifying truth.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-ais-jurassic-park-moment-811c3a-a2.

  121. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    We need to integrate LLMs with classical AI tools such as databases, knowledge graphs, and reasoning to fight misinformation.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-ais-jurassic-park-moment-811c3a-2-a1.

  122. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Generative AI systems like chatGPT pose a real and imminent threat to the fabric of society.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-ais-jurassic-park-moment-66039f-a1.

  123. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Executives at Meta and OpenAI are as enthusiastic about their tools as the proprietors of Jurassic Park were about theirs.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-ais-jurassic-park-moment-57e151-a1.

  124. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-ais-jurassic-park-moment-38e673

    e2 measures something else (company MosaicML is not Custom LLM training providers (e.g., MosaicML)); it can only be context unless it is derived with stated inputs; e4 measures something else (company MosaicML is not Custom LLM training providers (e.g., MosaicML)); it can only be context unless it is derived with stated inputs

  125. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-ais-jurassic-park-moment-18dda3

    a observation claim cannot be assessed on the causal_assessment axis

  126. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-ais-jurassic-park-moment-10605e

    e5 is dated 2022, which is not inside the period described (2022-01-01 to 2022-12-10); it can only be context

  127. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Misinformation-capable LLM technology can no longer be contained or withdrawn.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-ais-jurassic-park-moment-0aa544-a1.

  128. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    LLMs make greatly escalated propaganda volume possible, and propagandists might succeed in creating a world where people cannot know what to trust.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-ais-jurassic-park-moment-04b5a5-a1.

  129. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-ais-black-friday-f3dca1

    The openai review found the criteria unfair to the speaker's words.

  130. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-ais-black-friday-c7975c

    The openai review found the criteria unfair to the speaker's words.

  131. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-ais-black-friday-bd2775

    The openai screen reads the claim differently.

  132. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Meta may end up burning the most money on AI for the least results.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-ais-black-friday-ad8da7-a1.

  133. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-ais-black-friday-76d223

    The final-text check failed: rationale_supported_by_evidence; overclaims: The cited evidence is dated before the June 5, 2026 Google agreement, and the terms of that lease are not among the cited items..

  134. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    SpaceX's AI division is leasing out large numbers of GPUs in 2026 because it cannot figure out what to do with them.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-ais-black-friday-725a28-a1.

  135. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    If an American AI company is partly owned by the US government, nobody is going to trust it.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-ais-black-friday-6f5d76-a2.

  136. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    The market ought to keep falling on Monday, June 8, 2026, though Marcus says he does not know whether it will.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-ais-black-friday-50b5a3-a1.

  137. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-ais-black-friday-4364d8

    The anthropic screen reads the claim differently.

  138. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-ais-black-friday-42dc64

    The openai review does not accept e2 as supports.

  139. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Bailing out OpenAI is crony socialism and corruption that prevents capitalism from taking its natural course.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-ais-black-friday-3b461a-a1.

  140. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Marcus doubts that Friday, June 5, 2026 was as bad as the AI-related market downturn will get.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-ais-black-friday-2ff999-a1.

  141. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Google might be wise not to accept Trump's offered government investment, because so much of its income is global.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-ais-black-friday-2402b9-a1.

  142. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    OpenAI may be so financially desperate that it has no choice but to accept government investment.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-ais-black-friday-2402b9-2-a1.

  143. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    The new cold war will be about AI.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-ais-black-friday-1c94a0-a1.

  144. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-ai-versus-the-clumsy-human-mind-fcb735

    e5 is dated 2023-11, which is not inside the period described (2023-11-01 to 2023-11-25); it can only be context

  145. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    AI should aim to supplement humans where they are cognitively weak and take on dull, dirty, and dangerous work, not replicate humans.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-ai-versus-the-clumsy-human-mind-de0c1e-a1.

  146. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-ai-versus-the-clumsy-human-mind-c2bc7d

    The anthropic review does not accept e2 as supports.

  147. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-ai-versus-the-clumsy-human-mind-ad98e1

    The final-text check failed: rationale_supported_by_evidence; overclaims: The two papers considered do not show whether any system has or lacks world models..

  148. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-ai-versus-the-clumsy-human-mind-a2c5f9

    The anthropic screen finds the claim checkable, so it must be graded.

  149. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    AGI should be a reliable, hallucination-free system that solves human problems rather than creating new ones.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-ai-versus-the-clumsy-human-mind-a26a37-a1.

  150. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    We can probably make machines better if we first spend time thinking about human minds, both their strengths and their weaknesses.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-ai-versus-the-clumsy-human-mind-8fd334-a1.

  151. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-ai-versus-the-clumsy-human-mind-759c54

    The final-text check failed: citations_correct.

  152. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-ai-versus-the-clumsy-human-mind-6f5b7c

    a causal claim cannot be assessed on the forecast_outcome axis; hedged language is not scored, even on a plain reading

  153. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    As of November 2023, neither humans nor machines are more intelligent overall; they have different abilities.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-ai-versus-the-clumsy-human-mind-6151f4-a1.

  154. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-ai-versus-the-clumsy-human-mind-47d2eb

    e1 is dated 2023-11, which is not inside the period described (2023-01 to 2023-11-25); it can only be context; e2 is dated 2023, which is not inside the period described (2023-01 to 2023-11-25); it can only be context; e3 is dated 2023-11, which is not inside the period described (2023-01 to 2023-11-25); it can only be context; e4 is dated 2023-11, which is not inside the period described (2023-01 to 2023-11-25); it can only be context

  155. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    People should recognize, as soon as possible, that humans and silicon machines are importantly different.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-ai-versus-the-clumsy-human-mind-35227a-a1.

  156. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-ai-versus-the-clumsy-human-mind-22ee05

    e1 is dated 2023-11, which is not inside the period described (2023-01 to 2023-11-25); it can only be context

  157. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    AI should not aim to replicate the human mind in every detail.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-ai-versus-the-clumsy-human-mind-023b6e-a1.

  158. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-ai-still-lacks-common-sense-70-years-fa6dd9

    The openai review found the criteria unfair to the speaker's words.

  159. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    The hope that reliable commonsense will emerge from large text and video datasets has repeatedly proven unrealistic.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-ai-still-lacks-common-sense-70-years-f53ad1-a1.

  160. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    OpenAI's o1 often makes very basic spatial mistakes because it does not understand how objects are embedded and interact in space.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-ai-still-lacks-common-sense-70-years-da3ee2-a2.

  161. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Recent LLMs no longer make GPT-3's specific mistakes but still lack a robust understanding of the real external world.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-ai-still-lacks-common-sense-70-years-d51afb-a2.

  162. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-ai-still-lacks-common-sense-70-years-c9a2f8

    The openai review does not accept e2 as supports.

  163. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Much of the commonsense reasoning problem the authors raised in 2015 and 2019 remains unsolved in AI as of January 2025.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-ai-still-lacks-common-sense-70-years-b0c0ed-a1.

  164. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Current AI approaches have consistently fallen short on reasoning about entities and their properties.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-ai-still-lacks-common-sense-70-years-a13f79-a1.

  165. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Sora, now publicly available, struggles with physical reasoning.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-ai-still-lacks-common-sense-70-years-7c6de3-a2.

  166. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Current LLM agents (Claude, Gemini, GPT-4 etc.) are not close to ready for prime time on real-world workplace tasks.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-ai-still-lacks-common-sense-70-years-732925-a2.

  167. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-ai-still-lacks-common-sense-70-years-72badf

    The openai screen reads the claim differently.

  168. HeldBy this siteGary Marcus

    Held record marcus-ai-still-lacks-common-sense-70-years-55dca2

    The openai review found the criteria unfair to the speaker's words.

  169. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    None of the three popular approaches to commonsense reasoning (simulation, LLM emergence, video generation) has proved fully satisfactory.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-ai-still-lacks-common-sense-70-years-4f1e61-a1.

  170. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    Physical simulation has proven much less effective for AI commonsense reasoning than for scientific, engineering, and entertainment applications.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-ai-still-lacks-common-sense-70-years-4037bf-a2.

  171. Assessment publishedBy this siteGary Marcus

    LLM commonsense failure examples keep appearing because no robust solution has been found, even though individual examples can be fixed.

    First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.

    Assessment marcus-ai-still-lacks-common-sense-70-years-34937c-a1.