Gary Marcus

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9/2/2024, 7:55:31 PM
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Sauers
@Sauers_
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@GaryMarcus @polynoamial Do you think it's plausible that long-context transformer-based models could solve the "watch any arbitrary TV program or YouTube video and answer questions about its content" benchmark?
Gary Marcus
@GaryMarcus
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@polynoamial My goalpost since 2014, unmoved, unsolved:

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/a…

And I don’t know who “they” is but I personally never said poker or go couldn’t be solved, and I wonder how carefully you read Chiang’s articles.
Noam Brown
@polynoamial
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First they said AI can’t play Go, because it’s too complicated.

Then they said AI can’t win at poker, because it’s a “people game”.

Today, the skeptics say “AI won’t write novels”.

Surely once that happens, though, the goalposts won’t move again? https://www.newyorker.com/cultur…

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