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What Gary Marcus thinks about Apple

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Cognitive scientist, professor emeritus of psychology and neural science at NYU, and the most persistent public critic of large language models. Author of The Algebraic Mind and Rebooting AI; writes the Marcus on AI newsletter.

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  1. Our readingA language model is no substitute for a well-specified conventional algorithm, so it cannot simply be dropped into a complex problem and trusted.

    Their wordsWhat the Apple paper shows, most fundamentally, regardless of how you define AGI, is that LLMs are no substitute for good well-specified conventional algorithms.

    ↗A knockout blow for LLMs?garymarcus.substack.com 3rd of 6 in this piece

    AGILLMs

    Interesting

  3. Our readingSuccess on the easy version of a task is evidence of nothing, because it seduces you into believing the model found a general solution when it did not.

    Their wordsWorse, as the latest Apple papers shows, LLMs may well work on your easy test set (like Hanoi with 4 discs) and seduce you into thinking it has built a proper, generalizable solution when it does not.

    ↗A knockout blow for LLMs?garymarcus.substack.com 4th of 6 in this piece

    LLMs

    Interesting