“What’s more, the so-called scaling laws aren’t universal laws like gravity but rather mere observations that might not hold forever, much like Moore’s law, a trend in computer chip production that held for decades but arguably began to slow a decade ago.11”
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The so-called scaling laws are not universal laws like gravity but mere observations that might not hold forever, much like Moore's law, which held for decades but arguably began to slow a decade ago.
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Where and when Gary Marcus wrote it
Marcus on AI, The False Glorification of Yann LeCun, paragraph 25.
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Conditions
- might not hold forever (qualifier, stated by the speaker)
- arguably began to slow (qualifier, stated by the speaker)
From the speaker
- might not hold forever
- arguably began to slow
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- 2026-10-28.7
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: Marcus on AI, The False Glorification of Yann LeCun
What’s more, the so-called scaling laws aren’t universal laws like gravity but rather mere observations that might not hold forever, much like Moore’s law, a trend in computer chip production that held for decades but arguably began to slow a decade ago.11
- Where
- paragraph 25
- Published
- 2025-11-18
- Source observed
- , live page
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- full text, public
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