“As people begin to recognize that truth (the bitter lesson about limits of Sutton’s The Bitter Lesson), scientists will start to charts new paths. One of the new paths may even give rise to what we so desperately need: AI that we can trust.”
Our reading, the sentence that was checked:
As the limits of scaling become recognized, scientists will pursue new approaches, one of which may produce trustworthy AI.
Assessment: Can’t be checked Not checked against evidence
Where and when Gary Marcus wrote it
Marcus on AI, OpenAI’s Waterloo? [with corrections], paragraph 35.
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- Evidence
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What the claim commits to
- Kind
- Conditional forecast
- Deadline, as the speaker wrote it
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- Deadline state when assessed
- No horizon
- Deadline state on 2026-10-29
- No horizon (the release’s reference date)
Conditions
- as people recognize the limits of scaling LLMs (antecedent, stated by the speaker)
From the speaker
- as people recognize the limits of scaling LLMs
Our interpretation
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Current assessment
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Outcome: Can’t be checked
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- Stated as a chance or a possibility, or at medium or low confidence.
- Evidence
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- 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 that evidence could not settle it: one found it too vague to test: informed readers would test it in different ways and reach different answers; the other found it stated as a chance or a possibility, or at medium or low confidence.
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Evidence (0 items)
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Where it was said (1)
Said once in the sources this register covers.
: Marcus on AI, OpenAI’s Waterloo? [with corrections]
As people begin to recognize that truth (the bitter lesson about limits of Sutton’s The Bitter Lesson), scientists will start to charts new paths. One of the new paths may even give rise to what we so desperately need: AI that we can trust.
- Where
- paragraph 35
- Published
- 2025-08-14
- Source observed
- , live page
- Access
- full text, public
History
Assessment versions
- Assessment marcus-openais-waterloo-372737-a1: Current. Outcome: Can’t be checked. Not checked against evidence. Public date not recorded.
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