“LLMs will probably get cheaper to operate over time, both as the hardware required inevitably gets cheaper, and as people figure out how to make them more efficient.”
Our reading, the sentence that was checked:
LLMs will probably become cheaper to operate over time as hardware cheapens and efficiency improves.
Assessment: Can’t be checked Not checked against evidence
Where and when Gary Marcus wrote it
Marcus on AI, What exactly are the economics of AI?, paragraph 18.
- Said
- Source observed
- live page, full text, public
- Evidence
- Not checkedboth screens found it cannot be checked
- Assessment recorded
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What the claim commits to
- Kind
- Forecast
- Deadline, as the speaker wrote it
- “over time”
- Deadline state when assessed
- No horizon
- Deadline state on 2026-10-29
- No horizon (the release’s reference date)
Conditions
- hardware gets cheaper (qualifier, stated by the speaker)
- efficiency improvements (qualifier, stated by the speaker)
From the speaker
- hardware gets cheaper
- efficiency improvements
- over time
Our interpretation
None added.
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Current assessment
Not graded on evidence
Outcome: Can’t be checked
Both AI providers screened this claim on their own and found that public evidence could not settle it. It is recorded and attributed, not scored.
Why it can’t be checked
Both screens gave the same reason:
- Stated as a chance or a possibility, or at medium or low confidence.
- Evidence
- Not checked
- 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 this stated as a chance or a possibility, or at medium or low confidence.
Limitations
None recorded.
Evidence (0 items)
No evidence was searched for. Both screens found that public evidence could not settle this claim.
Where it was said (1)
Said once in the sources this register covers.
: Marcus on AI, What exactly are the economics of AI?
LLMs will probably get cheaper to operate over time, both as the hardware required inevitably gets cheaper, and as people figure out how to make them more efficient.
- Where
- paragraph 18
- Published
- 2023-08-14
- Source observed
- , live page
- Access
- full text, public
History
Assessment versions
- Assessment marcus-what-exactly-are-the-economics-of-ded8c5-a1: Current. Outcome: Can’t be checked. Not checked against evidence. Public date not recorded.
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