Gary Marcus Denounces Endless Lies About His Training And Publications
The desperation of the tech bros is made vivid in all the lies they tell about me.
Lies about my training.
Lies about my experience.
Lies about my publication record.
Lies about the predictions I have made.
It just goes on and on and on.
Endless lies. Endless desperation.
And still no profits.
#153Gary Marcus@GARYMARCUShere’s one sample, below, not even the only one I saw today; another claimed I don’t do research anymore when I had published articles in two top journals (Science and the Proceedings of The Royal Society) in the last 3 or 4 months.
Gary Marcus@GaryMarcusThe case against me below is completely intellectually dishonest, filled with lies and misrepresentations, wrong about almost literally everything it says—a textbook example of propaganda: - I didn’t say scaling laws didn’t work ever; I said that pure scaling would reach a point if diminishing returns (it did) - I didn’t say AI progress in general would have diminishing returns; I said pure scaling would (it did; neurosymbolic tools and harness are doing a lot for the work now, as I said they would) - I didn’t say deep learning would hit a dead end forever; i said it would need to encompass new mechanisms such as neurosymbolic AI (it did) - I didn’t say models would never improve; i said GPT-5 wouldn’t arrive in 2024 (it didn’t) - I never said LLMs aren’t any good (I have often pointed to reasonable use cases like coding) - Only part that is partly true is that O signed the pause letter, but as I noted publicly at the time it was because I thought we should have more research on AI safety (still do). (If you care about fair play and seeking truth, I hope you would consider retweeting this.)