“I think we can safely reach the same conclusion as before. Gemini can draw the desired image. But it’s still like pulling teeth to get there.”
Our reading, the sentence that was checked:
Gemini can draw a horse riding an astronaut, but getting it to do so is very difficult.
Assessment: Unresolved Evidence as of
Where and when Gary Marcus wrote it
Marcus on AI, Horse rides Astronaut, redux, paragraph 24.
- Said
- Source observed
- live page, full text, public
- Evidence as of
- the cutoff for this assessment
- Assessment recorded
- assessment marcus-horse-rides-astronaut-redux-c1d0b0-a1
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What the claim commits to
- Kind
- Observation
- Deadline, as the speaker wrote it
- None stated. This site does not add one.
- Deadline state when assessed
- No horizon
- Deadline state on 2026-10-29
- No horizon (the release’s reference date)
From the speaker
- Gemini can draw the desired image
- it’s still like pulling teeth to get there
Our interpretation
- The desired image is a horse riding an astronaut.
- The ordinary reading combines demonstrated capability with unreliable prompt following that requires several attempts.
- The immediate target is the February 12–13 session described in the post. Generalizing the difficulty beyond that session requires repeated trials with the contemporaneous Gemini service.
- No numerical success-rate threshold is supplied or imposed.
Counts as supported if: Authenticated contemporary records show a correct depiction after several failed attempts, with repeated trials supporting the broader characterization of substantial difficulty.
Counts as contradicted if: Comparable contemporary trials show ordinary prompts reliably producing the scene with little iteration, contradicting the difficulty component, or the purported successful example proves not to depict the requested scene.
Retrospective: these criteria were written after the outcome was public.
Current assessment
Was it true for the period described?
Outcome: Unresolved
The record was checked, and the evidence available by the cutoff does not settle it.
Scored on a plain reading. The speaker named no measure for this claim, so it was judged on the reading an informed reader would take, stated below under our interpretation. Both reviews had to find that reading fair.
- Evidence as of
- Deadline state when assessed
- No horizon
- Assessment recorded
- Policy version
- 2026-10-28.7
Rationale
The phrase has a testable ordinary meaning: Gemini could produce the scene but required substantial iteration. However, the original conversation was inaccessible, and the other located commentary refers back to the same episode. Neither the demonstrated capability nor the degree of difficulty can be independently established from the retrieved records.
Limitations
- A verified difficult session would support the local observation more strongly than a general claim about typical performance.
- The speaker supplied no numerical definition of difficulty.
Evidence (0 items)
No evidence item settled this claim by the cutoff.
What would settle it
The complete authenticated February session, plus comparable repeated trials using the same Gemini service version to assess typical effort.
Where it was said (1)
Said once in the sources this register covers.
: Marcus on AI, Horse rides Astronaut, redux
I think we can safely reach the same conclusion as before. Gemini can draw the desired image. But it’s still like pulling teeth to get there.
- Where
- paragraph 24
- Published
- 2024-02-13
- Source observed
- , live page
- Access
- full text, public
History
Assessment versions
- Assessment marcus-horse-rides-astronaut-redux-c1d0b0-a1: Current. Outcome: Unresolved. Evidence as of 2026-10-28. Public date not recorded.
Recorded events
Assessment publishedBy this site
First assessment published after both reviews and the final-text check passed.
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