Gary Marcus Retweets Praise for Biology Models
Gary Marcus retweeted a post praising proprietary biology models while noting limits elsewhere.
Gary Marcus, a cognitive scientist and critic of deep learning, retweeted Jason Pontin. The post, addressed to Marcus along with Proxima Bio and Anil Seth, states that as a user of these models the writer is in awe of proprietary biology models but finds others less impressive. The message cuts off mid-word at uni. The cluster centers on this social media exchange about differing AI capabilities in biology versus other domains.
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Gary Marcus Retweets Praise for Biology Models
Gary Marcus retweeted a post praising proprietary biology models while noting limits elsewhere.
Gary Marcus, a cognitive scientist and critic of deep learning, retweeted Jason Pontin. The post, addressed to Marcus along with Proxima Bio and Anil Seth, states that as a user of these models the writer is in awe of proprietary biology models but finds others less impressive. The message cuts off mid-word at uni. The cluster centers on this social media exchange about differing AI capabilities in biology versus other domains.
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Jason Pontin@jason_pontin@GaryMarcus @proximabio @anilkseth As someone who uses these models, I’m in awe of the proprietary biology models—but unimpressed at some deep level by the LLMs.
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