“GenAI is like a rerun of that situation, an order or two of magnitude more hype, coupled with equal naïveté about what a cognitively adequate solution would actually look like, only this time with an extra decimal place, potentially a trillion dollars down the drain — and perhaps with far more collateral damage to the economy.”
Our reading, the sentence that was checked:
Generative AI is like a rerun of the driverless-car hype, with an order or two of magnitude more hype and equal naïveté about what a cognitively adequate solution would look like, potentially with a trillion dollars down the drain and perhaps far more collateral damage to the economy.
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Where and when Gary Marcus wrote it
Marcus on AI, Three years on, ChatGPT still isn't what it was cracked up to be – and it probably never will be, paragraph 59.
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- a trillion dollars
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: Marcus on AI, Three years on, ChatGPT still isn't what it was cracked up to be – and it probably never will be
GenAI is like a rerun of that situation, an order or two of magnitude more hype, coupled with equal naïveté about what a cognitively adequate solution would actually look like, only this time with an extra decimal place, potentially a trillion dollars down the drain — and perhaps with far more collateral damage to the economy.
- Where
- paragraph 59
- Published
- 2025-11-29
- Source observed
- , live page
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- full text, public
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