“I don’t think any pure deep learning/big data system can match it.”
Our reading:
Marcus does not think any pure deep learning/big data system can match Sumit Gulwani's one-trial Flash Fill feature.
Assessment: Can’t be checked
What happened
Not graded on evidence
Outcome: Can’t be checked
An opinion, a recommendation, or too vague to test. Listed, not scored.
Evidence up to . Checked .
Why
Marcus’s May 14, 2022 statement uses “I don’t think” to qualify the comparison with Flash Fill [marcus-the-new-science-of-alt-intelligence-1728ef-o1]. It does not define what “match it” requires or which components a “pure deep learning/big data system” may include [marcus-the-new-science-of-alt-intelligence-1728ef-o1]. Scoring a firm capability assertion would change the force of that wording; the statement is not adjudicable as supplied [resolution contract, version 2].
Caveats
- The evidence packet contains no empirical comparison with Flash Fill.
- This assessment does not establish whether a deep-learning system available in May 2022 could match Flash Fill.
- Benchmark results could inform the underlying comparison but would not settle the qualified statement under this contract.
Evidence (0 items)
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How we judged it
- Kind of claim
- Observation
- Deadline
- None given. We don’t add one.
Conditions
- I don't think (their words)
Where we had to interpret
- “It” refers to Flash Fill, described in the supplied context as a useful one-trial learning system.
- The wording expresses Marcus’s qualified belief about a capability comparison. It does not assert an unqualified impossibility.
- The surrounding discussion concerns capabilities at publication in May 2022. It supplies no future deadline.
- A benchmark could test an operational version of the underlying comparison, but scoring that comparison as a firm assertion would remove the explicit qualification.
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Source and dates
Marcus on AI, The New Science of Alt Intelligence, paragraph 56.
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We read this wording on 2026-10-29. The post may have been edited after 2022-05-14.
Where it was said (1)
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: Marcus on AI, The New Science of Alt Intelligence
I don’t think any pure deep learning/big data system can match it.
- Where
- paragraph 56
- Published
- 2022-05-14
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- full text, public
History
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- Current: Can’t be checked. Evidence up to 2026-10-28.
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