“If we don’t, we are likely to see reprises of what we see now with driverless cars, in automated doctors, automated psychiatrists, all purpose virtual assistants, home robots, and more, probably for years to come.”
Our reading, the sentence that was checked:
If we do not shift our focus toward developing new methodologies for coping with edge cases, we are likely to see reprises of today's driverless-car problems in automated doctors, automated psychiatrists, all-purpose virtual assistants, home robots and more, probably for years to come.
Assessment: Can’t be checked Not checked against evidence
Where and when Gary Marcus wrote it
Marcus on AI, Face it, self-driving cars still haven’t earned their stripes, paragraph 33.
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- Source observed
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- Evidence
- Not checkedboth screens found it cannot be checked
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What the claim commits to
- Kind
- Conditional forecast
- Deadline, as the speaker wrote it
- “probably for years to come”
- Deadline state when assessed
- No horizon
- Deadline state on 2026-10-29
- No horizon (the release’s reference date)
Conditions
- if we don't stop hammering a square peg into a round hole and shift focus toward developing new methodologies for edge cases (antecedent, stated by the speaker)
- probably (qualifier, stated by the speaker)
From the speaker
- if we don't stop hammering a square peg into a round hole and shift focus toward developing new methodologies for edge cases
- probably
- probably for years to come
Our interpretation
None added.
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Current assessment
Not graded on evidence
Outcome: Can’t be checked
Both AI providers screened this claim on their own and found that public evidence could not settle it. It is recorded and attributed, not scored.
Why it can’t be checked
Both screens gave the same reason:
- Stated as a chance or a possibility, or at medium or low confidence.
- Evidence
- Not checked
- Deadline state when assessed
- No horizon
- Assessment recorded
- Policy version
- 2026-10-28.7
Rationale
Not checked against evidence. Two independent screens, one from each provider, both found this stated as a chance or a possibility, or at medium or low confidence.
Limitations
None recorded.
Evidence (0 items)
No evidence was searched for. Both screens found that public evidence could not settle this claim.
Where it was said (1)
Said once in the sources this register covers.
: Marcus on AI, Face it, self-driving cars still haven’t earned their stripes
If we don’t, we are likely to see reprises of what we see now with driverless cars, in automated doctors, automated psychiatrists, all purpose virtual assistants, home robots, and more, probably for years to come.
- Where
- paragraph 33
- Published
- 2023-08-19
- Source observed
- , live page
- Access
- full text, public
History
Assessment versions
- Assessment marcus-face-it-self-driving-cars-still-havent-8ed653-a1: Current. Outcome: Can’t be checked. Not checked against evidence. Public date not recorded.
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