“Those who do not have wasted a tremendous amount of money.”
Our reading, the sentence that was checked:
People in AI who do not understand that machine learning handles outliers poorly have wasted a tremendous amount of money.
Assessment: Can’t be checked Evidence as of
Where and when Gary Marcus wrote it
Marcus on AI, This one important fact about current AI explains almost everything, paragraph 3.
- Said
- Source observed
- live page, full text, public
- Evidence as of
- the cutoff for this assessment
- Assessment recorded
- assessment marcus-this-one-important-fact-about-current-667be0-a1
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What the claim commits to
- Kind
- Observation
- Deadline, as the speaker wrote it
- None stated. This site does not add one.
- Deadline state when assessed
- No horizon
- Deadline state on 2026-10-29
- No horizon (the release’s reference date)
From the speaker
- Those who do not
- have wasted
- a tremendous amount of money
Our interpretation
- The context identifies the group by its alleged failure to understand machine learning's outlier problem.
- The statement does not identify people, investments, a measurement period, or a standard for distinguishing wasted expenditure from unsuccessful but reasonable investment.
- Recorded losses would not establish either the investors' understanding or that their expenditure was wasteful.
- No company or company financial metric is specified, so metric_scope is null.
This claim is not graded on evidence. The record checks that the words are quoted correctly and attributed to the right person, and that the claim is classified correctly.
Current assessment
Not graded on evidence
Outcome: Can’t be checked
The statement is a recommendation, a value judgment, or too open to test. It is recorded, not scored.
- Evidence as of
- Deadline state when assessed
- No horizon
- Assessment recorded
- Policy version
- 2026-10-28.7
Rationale
The statement combines an unidentified group, an assertion about its understanding, and an evaluative judgment about spending. Public investment records cannot settle those elements without definitions Marcus did not supply. Assigning particular companies or treating all losses as waste would change the claim.
Limitations
- This does not establish that the investments were worthwhile or that nobody underestimated outlier risks.
Evidence (0 items)
No outcome evidence: a claim of this kind is recorded and attributed, not scored.
What would settle it
A narrower claim identifying the people, investments, period, evidence of their understanding, and a measurable standard for wasted expenditure.
Where it was said (1)
Said once in the sources this register covers.
: Marcus on AI, This one important fact about current AI explains almost everything
Those who do not have wasted a tremendous amount of money.
- Where
- paragraph 3
- Published
- 2024-08-01
- Source observed
- , live page
- Access
- full text, public
History
Assessment versions
- Assessment marcus-this-one-important-fact-about-current-667be0-a1: Current. Outcome: Can’t be checked. Evidence as of 2026-10-28. Public date not recorded.
Recorded events
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