Unresolved claims by Gary Marcus, page 11 of 11

Unresolved claims by Gary Marcus (1005)

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1. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid 2022-05-14

   “Systems like DALL-E 2, GPT-3, Flamingo, and Gato appear to be mind-blowing, but nobody who has looked at them carefully would confuse them for human intelligence.”

2. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid 2022-05-14

   “Virtually all of the world’s software, from web browsers to spreadsheets to word processors, still depends on knowledge engineering, and Sutton sells that short.”

3. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid 2022-05-14

   “So far, in most domains (not all, to be sure) Big Data has triumphed (for now) over careful knowledge engineering.”

4. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid 2022-05-14

   “As I have written, I am fine with thinking of Gato as an “Alt Intelligence”— an interesting exploration in alternative ways to build intelligence—but we need to take it in context: it doesn’t work like the brain, it doesn’t learn like a child, it doesn’t understand language, it doesn’t align with human values, and it can’t be trusted with mission-critical tasks.”

5. Assessment: UnresolvedSaid 2022-05-14

   “Right now, the predominant strand of work within Alt Intelligence is the idea of scaling.”