Claims that can’t be checked by Gary Marcus, page 26 of 26

Claims that can’t be checked by Gary Marcus (2,509)

Opinions, rhetoric, hedged or vague claims, and things no public evidence could show. Listed, not scored.

Claims 2,501 to 2,509 of 2,509, newest first. Page 26 of 26.

1. Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid 2022-05-14

   “We are in early days in AI.”

2. Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid 2022-05-14

   “But anyone who is candid will recognize that these kinds of errors reveal that something is, for now, deeply amiss.”

3. Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid 2022-05-14

   “Let us all encourage a field that is open-minded enough to work in multiple directions, without prematurely dismissing ideas that happen to be not yet fully developed.”

4. Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid 2022-05-14

   “It may just be that the best path to artificial (general) intelligence isn’t through Alt Intelligence, after all.”

5. Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid 2022-05-14

   “A large fraction of current AI researchers, or at least those currently in power, don’t (so far as I can tell) give a damn about any of this.”

6. Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid 2022-05-14

   “AI should certainly not be a slavish replica of human intelligence (which after all is flawed in its own ways, saddled with lousy memory and cognitive bias). But it should look to human (and animal cognition) for clues.”

7. Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid 2022-05-14

   “It may well be better than anything else we currently have, but the fact that it still doesn’t really work, even after all the immense investments that have been made in it, should give us pause.”

8. Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid 2022-05-14

   “It is sheer hubris to believe otherwise.”

9. Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid 2022-05-14

   “To some (such as myself), the abiding problem of discomprehension might—despite the immense progress—signal the need for a fundamental rethink, such as the one that Davis and I offered in our book Rebooting AI.”